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The Korean choral conductor and organist, Song Yi Park, obtained her Bachelor of Music degree in Choral Conducting and Sacred Music 's degree in Music from Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea; While studying in Korea, she performed in many concerts as a pianist, assistant conductor and conductor. She obtained her Master of Sacred Music degree in Church Music from Boston University, where she was a student of Peter Sykes. In 2010, she graduated with the Graduate Performance Diploma in Organ Performance at the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University, studying with John Walker. While studying at Peabody she was awarded the James Winship Lewis Memorial Prize in Organ and Church Music in 2009. In 2010, she was awarded the Bruce R. Eicher Prize in Organ and she won second place at the First Presbyterian Church of Fort Wayne, Indiana, National Organ Competition. In 2012, she was a quarter-finalist in the International Organ Competition in Musashino-Tokyo. She obtained her her Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Organ Performance from The University of Kansas, where she has studied with James Higdon and Michael Bauer; her Master of Music degree in Choral Conducting from The University of Kansas; and her Doctor of Musical Arts in Choral Conducting from The University of Kansas.
Song Yi Park has served as as an organist at Loch Raven United Methodist Church in Baltimore, Maryland; Graduate Teaching Assistant at The University of Kansas in Lawrence (August 2013-May 2018); Music Director at Korean Choir of The Greater Kansas City Inc (May 2019-February 2020); Organist at First Presbyterian Church of Topeka, Kansas (January 2015-April 2020); Adjunct Professor at Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas (August 2018-May 2020); Choir Director at Yonsei University Church in Seoul, South Korea (since July 2020). In 2024, she founded the Korean Bach Society in Seoul in order to peform the music of J.S. Bach. |
