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Adrienne Park

Assistant Professor of Collaborative Piano

Adrienne Claire Park

I am the Assistant Professor of Collaborative Piano and coordinate the collaborative piano needs for music students. I am also the founder and Artistic Director of the Sonic Explorations Concert Series at UM Music..

Biography

Adrienne Park has extensive experience as a collaborative pianist in chamber, symphonic, and contemporary music settings. She has performed recitals with many renowned artists, including violinists Joshua Bell and Andrew Dawes, cellists Shauna Rolston and Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi, bassist Edgar Meyer, flutists Paul Edmund Davies, Timothy Hutchins and Tara Helen O’Connor, bassoonist Frank Morelli, saxophonist Nikita Zimin, horn artist Frøydis Ree Wekre, the percussion group NEXUS, soprano Mary Wilson, and tenor Telly Leung. Adrienne is the Assistant Professor of Collaborative Piano at the University of Mississippi and has been a member of the music faculty since 2001. She coordinates the Collaborative Piano area for vocal and instrumental students and performs regularly with music faculty and guest artists. She mentors the graduate collaborative piano students, teaches collaborative piano courses, coaches chamber ensembles, and collaborates with music students. She also designed the curriculum for Keyboard Musicianship, a required course for music majors. She is the Artistic Director of the UM Music concert series Sonic Explorations which features multimedia performances with music faculty and professional musicians in the region. Themed concerts focus on a genre, region, or set of composers, exploring the sound world of that theme. Central to concert events is the use of multimedia – projected film, art, and poetry – with unique lighting designs and innovative stage positioning. Adrienne is Principal Piano and Celeste with the Memphis Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Robert Moody, a position she has held since 2004. As a featured soloist, she performed Doreen Carwithen's Concerto for Piano and Strings and Francis Poulenc's Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra as part of the MSO Masterworks Series. In addition to their symphonic series, the MSO performs frequently with Opera Memphis, Ballet Memphis, New Ballet Ensemble, and Collage Dance Collective. Since 2005, Adrienne performed regularly with Iris Orchestra, under the direction of Michael Stern. Iris Orchestra's roster includes musicians from some of the country’s finest orchestras, universities, and chamber groups. Adrienne has also performed with the Memphis Chamber Music Society since 2004. MCMS presents concerts in landmark homes and art galleries in Memphis, featuring gifted local musicians and internationally known artists. Adrienne is a member of the contemporary Blueshift Ensemble and has worked with ICEBERG New Music, a collective of ten composers based in New York City. A proponent of contemporary music, Adrienne has performed many world premieres. She was part of a consortium of pianists who commissioned Flower Catalog by American composer Stephanie Ann Boyd. She collaborated with Kokoro Dance in Vancouver, British Columbia, premiering the productions of Sunyata, Truths of the Blood, Dance of the Dead, Encounters with the Goddess, Sade—Part II, and Embryonic Cavatina. With Joe Ink Dance, she performed in a contemporary jazz ensemble led by composer John Korsrud, premiering the productions of Swing Theory and Seven. She co-founded the trio SqueezPlay with accordionist Douglas Schmidt and percussionist David Carlisle. SqueezPlay recorded a CD of original works entitled rubber horn at the Banff Centre for the Arts with producer Mark S. Willsher. SqueezPlay performed a program as guest artists at the Winnipeg New Music Festival with cellist Shauna Rolston. For six years at the Banff Centre for the Arts, she was the faculty collaborative pianist for both the fall and winter residencies. For several summers, she was a faculty collaborative pianist for the string and woodwind masterclasses. While at Banff, she had the privilege of working closely with Isobel Moore Rolston and Tom Rolston. Adrienne studied with Abbey Simon and Ruth Tomfohrde at the University of Houston and with Robert Silverman at the University of British Columbia.

Publications

SqueezPlay album "rubber horn", Lyrical Baritone Vol. 1 album with Adam Estes

Courses Taught

Education

BM Piano, University of Houston (1987)

MM Piano, University of British Columbia (1990)