Norris Gallery Series welcomes Tricia Park in ‘Violin Solos: From Bach to BTS’ March 24

The Norris Cultural Arts Center’s “Music & More in the Gallery” event series continues Sunday, March 24, when Chicago-based violinist Tricia Park performs what she calls “a tasting menu of music for solo violin” in her inventive program, “From Bach to BTS.”

This family-friendly performance will be held at 3 p.m. in the art gallery of the Norris Cultural Arts Center, 1040 Dunham Road on the Norris campus on the east side of St. Charles.

General admission tickets are $20 or $10 for students. For tickets, visit norris-cultural-arts.ticketleap.com/.

Bring the youngsters for an introduction to virtuosic violin music, played and narrated by an engaging, articulate performer.

Praised by critics for her “astounding virtuosic gifts” (Boston Herald), “achingly pure sound” (The Toronto Star), and “impressive technical and interpretive control” (The New York Times), Tricia Park enjoys a diverse and eclectic career as a violinist, educator, writer, composer, and podcaster.

Violin Solos: From Bach to BTS

In “Violin Solos: From Bach to BTS,” Park takes the audience on an entertaining and informative tour of the violin’s history, from well-known classics by J.S. Bach and Paganini to works by George Walker, Chen Yi, Anthony Cheung, Isang Yun, and Chicago composer Augusta Read Thomas.

Park rounds out the program with the family favorite, Alan Ridout’s “Ferdinand the Bull,” as well as her own original compositions plus music by the Korean boy band sensation, BTS. Sure to delight listeners of all ages, the Chicago Classical Review recently called her performance of this program, “adventurous … with a decidedly charismatic and personal flavor.”

Park is the producer and host of the podcast, “Is it Recess Yet? Confessions of a Former Child Prodigy.” She is the recipient of the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant, a Fulbright grant, and was selected as one of “Korea’s World Leaders of Tomorrow” by the Korean Daily Central newspaper.

Since appearing in her first orchestral engagement at age 13 with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, she has performed with the English Chamber Orchestra, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, and National Symphony Orchestra of South Africa; the Montreal, Dallas, Cincinnati, Seattle, Honolulu, Nevada, and Lincoln Symphonies; and the Calgary, Buffalo, and Westchester and Naples Philharmonics.

Park has given recitals throughout the United States and abroad, including a highly acclaimed performance at the Ravinia Rising Stars series. She also performs as half of the violin-fiddle duo, Tricia & Taylor, with fiddler-violinist, Taylor Morris.

She received her Bachelor and Master of Music from the Juilliard School where she was a recipient of the Starling-DeLay Teaching Fellowship. She has performed chamber music with Pinchas Zukerman, Cho-Liang Lin, Michael Tree, Gary Hoffman, Paul Neubauer, Robert McDonald, and members of the American, Guarneri, Juilliard, Orion String Quartets and Eighth Blackbird. Former teachers include Dorothy DeLay, Felix Galimir, Cho-Liang Lin, Donald Weilerstein, Hyo Kang, and Piotr Milewski.

Park has served on faculty at The Juilliard School, the University of Chicago, the University of Iowa, and the University of Illinois at Chicago. She has also taught master classes and clinics at the Peabody Institute of Music, Oberlin Conservatory of Music, the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati, Dartmouth College, the Longy School of Music of Bard College, McGill University, and the Interlochen Summer Arts Academy.

Visit www.triciapark.com.