Kreisler & Others: Violin Works David Park, Alex Marshall, Melissa Garff Ballard

• Fritz Kreisler (1875 - 1962): 3 Old Viennese Dances:
• 1 3 Old Viennese Dances: No. 3, Schön Rosmarin 02:08
• 2 3 Old Viennese Dances: No. 1, Liebesfreud 03:36
• 3 Caprice Viennois in B Minor, Op. 2 04:13
• Isaac Albéniz (1860 - 1909):
• 4 Tango, Op. 165 No. 2 (Arr. for Violin & Piano) 02:43
• 5 Recitative and Scherzo-Caprice, Op. 6 04:44
• 6 3 Old Viennese Dances: No. 2, Liebesleid 03:53
• 7 Rondino on a Theme of Beethoven 02:59
• Manuel de Falla (1876 - 1946):
• 8 La vida breve: Danse espagnole (Arr. for Violin & Piano) 03:36
• Felix Mendelssohn (1809 - 1847):
• 9 Song Without Words, Op. 62 No. 1, MWV U 185: No. 1 in G Major. Andante espressivo (Arr. for Violin & Piano) 03:06
• Fritz Kreisler:
• 10 Tempo di minuetto in the Style of Pugnani 04:12
• 11 Marche miniature viennoise 03:11
• 12 La Gitana 03:23
• 13 Praeludium & Allegro in the Style of Pugnani 05:59
• Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714 - 1787):
• 14 Orphée et Eurydice, Wq. 41: Mélodie (Transcr. F. Kreisler) 03:31
• Total Runtime 51:14

Info for Kreisler & Others: Violin Works

Violinist David Park, with pianist Melissa Garff Ballard in some works, performs a program of works by the great composer and violinist Fritz Kreisler. This is a truly exciting album of virtuosic violin works. DAVID H. PARK, a soloist with extraordinary artistic gifts, (Salt Lake Tribune) started playing the violin at the age of five in Seoul, Korea. Park has studied with two of the most distinguished pedagogues, Josef Gingold and Dorothy Delay. He received his Bachelor of Music at the University of Indiana and Master of Music at the Juilliard School. At the age of 14, he was one of the last students of the legendary Jascha Heifetz. Park maintains a balance between his engagements as soloist with orchestras throughout the world and his recital and chamber music activities.

David Park, violin
Alex Marshall, piano
Melissa Garff Ballard, piano

David H. Park
started playing the violin at the age of five in Seoul, Korea. Since coming to the United States in 1976 at the age of seven, Park has studied with some of the most distinguished artists and teachers, such as Jascha Heifetz,, Josef Gingold, Dorothy Delay, and Yuval Yaron. He received his Bachelor of Music at the University of Indiana and Master of Music at the Juilliard School.

Park maintains a balance between his engagements as soloist with orchestras throughout the world and his recital and chamber music activities. Park appeared as a soloist with the Utah Symphony, the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, the Korean Chamber Orchestra, Music Academy of the West Festival Orchestra, the Daegu Symphony, Inchon Symphony and Santa Ana Symphony. Park has given recitals in many of the world’s great concert halls including Carnegie Weill Hall and Alice Tully Hall in New York, Salle de Pleyel in Paris, and Sejong Music Center in Seoul. Park has also performed on national television and radio broadcasts in the United States, France and Korea. Furthermore, Park has participated as both soloist and chamber musician in summer festivals such as the Music Festivals of Aspen, Vienna, Music Academy of the West, Grand Teton, and Aix-en Provence, France.

Some of Park’s highlights include his first return to Seoul, Korea in 1989, performing the Lalo Symphonie Espagnole with the Seoul Philharmonic. Park made his New York debut in 1994 performing Vivaldi’s Four Seasons in Carnegie Weill Hall. In 1998, Park performed both solo and chamber music in collaboration with Augustin Dumay in France which was broadcasted nationally by France Musique, the main classical radio station in France. In 2002-2003 season, Park soloed with the Daegu Symphony Orchestra, the Inchon Symphony Orchestra in Korea and Santa Ana Symphony, performing the concertos of Tchaikovsky, Brahms and Bruch. During the 2003-2004 season, Park soloed with the Utah Symphony and the Pyongyang State Orchestra of North Korea in a cultural exchange gala concert. In 2005, Park performed with the Salt Lake Symphony, and in the summer of 2006 Park held the position of concert master and was a faculty member at the Wintergreen Music Festival.

Currently, Park is the Assistant Concertmaster of the Utah Symphony and an Adjunct Associate Professor of Music at the University of Utah. Prior to joining the Utah Symphony, Park was the Concertmaster of the Festival d’Art Lyrique de Musique d’Aix-en Provence, the Juilliard Symphony Orchestra and the Festival Orchestra of the Music Academy of the West. As a concertmaster, Park has worked with such musicians as Joseph Silverstein, Leonard Slatkin, John Williams, Robert Mann, Keith Lockhart and Reinhart Goeble of Antique Cologne. In his spare time, Park enjoys studying sports, arts and literature. In the spring of 2005, Park held the position of Distinguished Artist at the UC Santa Barbara.

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