Violinist Alyssa Park established an enviable international reputation in 1990 as the youngest prizewinner in the history of the Tchaikovsky International Competition. In addition to earning the bronze medal, she was honored by the jury for being "the most promising talent ...the most artistic performer ...the most interesting personality" and for displaying "the best mastery of the instrument." At the time, Alyssa Park was sixteen. Since her professional debut, at age eleven, with the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra, Alyssa Park has made numerous recital and orchestral appearances in this country. The New York Times critically acclaimed her New York City debut, in 1991, at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall for delivering "an unusually strong technique and a youthful sense of music making." Other notable recital credits include the Ravinia Festival's Rising Star Series, the Kennedy Center Recital Series, the Oregon Bach Festival, and recitals at Rockefeller University in New York City. She has also performed with the Florida West Coast Symphony and with numerous municipal and regional orchestras, including appearances in Cincinnati, OH; Louisville, KY; San Jose, CA; Austin, Tex.; Knoxville, TN; Annapolis, MD; and New Orleans, LA.

Ms. Park also performs extensively 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), the 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.

Ms. Park has toured Germany with the Bamberg Symphony orchestra and the Czech Philharmonic, and has performed in Spain, Switzerland, and Austria with the Cincinnati Symphony. A highlight of Ms. 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 has also appeared as guest soloist with major Australian orchestras in Sydney, Adelaide, and Tasmania, as well as the Barcelona Orchestra with Vladimir Fedoseyev; the Mitteldeutsche Rundfunk at the Leipzig Gewandhaus with Marcello Viotti; and with the Hamburg Philharmonic.

In the fall of 1996, Ms. Park joined the Czech Philharmonic on their 17-city tour of the United States, giving concerts at Washington, D.C.'s Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall, and performances in other East Coast cities, including West Palm Beach, FL; Charlotte, NC; Wilmington, DE; and Amherst, MA.

Ms. Park's 1997-98 season featured performances in Asia with the Korean Broadcasting Symphony, Japan Philharmonic, the Singapore Symphony, the Berlin Radio Orchestra, Frankfurt Radio Orchestra, Lisbon Symphony, and the Munich Philharmonic. She also made her debut this season at Italy's Ravello Festival and Holland's Royal Concertgebouw.

Alyssa Park is a frequent guest at major festivals in Germany, including Ludwigsburg and SchleswigHolstein, where she has played chamber music with Martha Argerich. In the summer of 1995, Ms. Park performed five concerts with the Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra, conducted by Helmut Rilling. She has also appeared at the Weilburg, Passau, and Frankfurt summer festivals, and at other leading international music festivals, including Montpellier, France, and the Brahms Festival in Madrid.

Ms. Park was a student at the University of Cincinnati's College Conservatory of Music, studying under Kurt Sassmanshaus and Dorothy DeLay. She was a winner of the Aspen Music Festival's concerto competition, in 1988, and returned there to teach in 1996. She now resides in Los Angeles, with part-time teaching responsibilities at the University of California at Los Angeles.