Sophia Park holds a Masters of Music in violin performance from Indiana University, and a Doctor of Musical Arts in violin performance from the Eastman School of Music.  

She is the current President of Hawaii Music Teachers Association, the regional affiliate of MTNA. She is currently an adjunct professor at Pacific Rim Christian University in Honolulu, where she is teaching music history, music theory, and ethnomusicology.  

 

In more recent years, she was an adjunct professor at Honolulu Community College and coached the string section of University of Hawaii Symphony Orchestra. She was a summer faculty at Interlochen Arts Camp in 2011, where she had a full violin studio, taught chamber music, and coached string sectionals.  As teaching assistant at Eastman, she also had a violin studio with students from University of Rochester. 

Sophia is currently a member in the violin section of Hawaii Symphony Orchestra.  In the past she was a substitute in the violin section at New Jersey Symphony Orchestra (2014-2018) and the Rochester Philharmonic (2008-2011). Prior to those years, she performed as a member in the violin section of Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra and Civic Orchestra of Chicago.

She has toured internationally with music ensembles throughout the United States and abroad.  She took part in the Moritzburg Festival, an all expense paid festival in Germany, and in the AIMS Music Festival in Graz, Austria.

Her principle violin teachers have included Charles Castleman (Eastman School of Music), Oleh Krysa (Eastman School of Music), Paul Biss (Indiana University), Mark Kaplan (UCLA), Robert Waters, Jeremy Zhu, Michael Geisler, Janos Negyesy, Vesna Gruppman and Janet Jones.