Alyssa Park established an enviable international reputation at age sixteen for being the youngest prizewinner in the history of the Tchaikovsky International Competition. In addition to being awarded the bronze medal in 1990, she was also honored by the jury for being the most promising talent, most artistic performer, most interesting personality, and for displaying the best mastery of the instrument.
Park has made numerous recital and orchestral appearances in this country since her professional debut at age eleven with the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra. Her New York debut recital in 1991 at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall was critically acclaimed by The New York Times for "an unusually strong technique and a youthful sense of music making." Other notable recital credits include the Ravinia Festival's Rising Star Series, Kennedy Center Recital Series, Oregon Bach Festival, and Rockefeller University in New York City. She has performed with the orchestras of Cincinnati, Louisville, San Jose, Austin, Knoxville, Annapolis, New Orleans, as well as the Florida West Coast Symphony, among others.
Park performs extensively every season throughout Europe. She made her European debut in 1991 with Sir Colin Davis and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Soon after she made appearances with the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra with Jesus Lopez-cobos, Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, and the Czech Philharmonic conducted by Gerd Albrecht. Her performance with the Austrian Radio Symphony at Vienna's Musikverein was featured in a live radio and television broadcast throughout Europe. Park has toured Germany with the Bamberg Symphony orchestra, the Czech Philharmonic, and Spain, Switzerland, and Austria with the Cincinnati Symphony.
Park toured with the Czech Philharmonic on their 17-city tour of the United States in Fall 1996 with concerts at Washington, DC's Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall, as well as performances in West Palm Beach, Charlotte (NC), Wilmington (DE), and Amherst (MA), among other East Coast cities. A highlight of Park's previous season was the premiere performance in Poland of Krzysztof Penderecki's second violin concerto with the Polish Radio Orchestra conducted by the composer. She also appeared as soloist with the orchestras of Sydney, Adelaide, and Tasmania, Australia in addition to her European activities which included the Barcelona Orchestra with Vladimir Fedoseyev, Mitteldeutsche Rundfunk at the Leipzig Gewandhaus with Marcello Viotti, and the Hamburg Philharmonic.
Park's 1997-98 season features performances in Asia with the Korean Broadcasting Symphony, Japan Philharmonic in Suntory Hall, and the Singapore Symphony. She makes her debut this season in Italy at the Ravello Festival, and in Holland at the Royal Concertgebouw. The 1997-98 season also includes performances with the Berlin Radio Orchestra, Frankfurt Radio Orchestra, Lisbon Symphony, and the Munich Philharmonic.
Park is a frequent guest at major festivals in Germany including Ludwigsburg and Schleswig-Holstein where she has played chamber music with Martha Argerich. In Summer of 1995, Park performed five concerts with the Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra conducted by Helmut Rilling. She also appeared at the Weilburg, Passau, and Frankfurt summer festivals as well as other leading international music festivals including Montpellier, France, and the Brahms Festival in Madrid.
Park was a winner of the Aspen Music Festival's concerto competition in 1988, and returned in 1996 to teach. Park was a student at the University of Cincinnati's College Conservatory of Music. Her teachers were Kurt Sassmanshaus and Dorothy DeLay. She now resides in Los Angeles, and teaches at University of California Los Angeles (UCLA).