Since its formation in 1997, the Boston Trio has become one of today’s most exciting chamber ensembles. Violinist Grace Park, cellist Jonah Ellsworth, and pianist Heng-Jin Park have distinguished careers as soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician, and have appeared with major orchestras and leading chamber music festivals throughout the United States and Europe. Mr. Ellsworth has performed as soloist with the Boston Symphony, Akron Symphony, Boston Philharmonic, Jacksonville Symphony, Johnstown Symphony, Symphony by the Sea, and New Bedford Symphony, and attended the Marlboro Music Festival from 2014-2016. Grace Park is winner of the 2018 Naumburg International Violin Competition, and has appeared throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, and Canada at venues such as Walt Disney Hall, Kennedy Center, Rudolfinum (Prague), Metropolitan Museum of Art, Jordan Hall, and Tri-Noon at Rockefeller University. She has participated in such festivals as Music@Menlo, IMS Prussia Cove, Festival Mozaic, Yellowbarn, and Perlman Music Program. Heng-Jin Park, who made her solo debut with the Boston Pops at the age of fifteen, is the founding member of the Boston Trio and founder and artistic director of Halcyon Music Festival.
During previous seasons, the Boston Trio returned to the Clark Memorial Library-UCLA and performed across America at such venues as University of Maine and Neskowin Chamber Music Series in Oregon. Recent highlights include appearances at the Sanibel Music Festival, Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall, Maui Classical Music Festival, Rockport Music Festival, Virtuosi Concerts in Winnipeg, and performances of Beethoven’s Triple Concerto with the Boston Philharmonic.
The Boston Trio has been invited to perform on prestigious series, including the Celebrity Series of Boston, Seiji Ozawa Hall (Tanglewood), Chamber Music Society of Utica, Gualala Arts Chamber Music Series, “First Monday” series at the New England Conservatory, Bay Chamber Concerts (Rockport, Maine), Harvard Musical Association, Concerts at the Point, Brigham Young University, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Howland Chamber Music Circle, University of Arkansas and Merkin Hall and a nationally televised performance at Belgrade Music Festival at Kolarac Foundation Hall in Serbia. The Boston Trio has collaborated with such artists as the Borromeo Quartet and Bill T. Jones Dance Company and been frequent guests on Boston’s WGBH Radio and NPR.
The Boston Trio has coached chamber music at the Tanglewood Institute of Music and served as Ensemble-in-Residence at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the New England Conservatory. The Trio is committed to bringing chamber music to a broader audience through outreach activities at public schools and assisted living centers; the ensemble has held mini-residencies at Dickinson College and Luther College. The members serve on the faculties of the New England Conservatory, University of Maryland, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and are in demand as master class teachers throughout the United States, Asia, and Europe.
