The 2025 Sibelius Violin Competition winner will serve as professor of violin for an initial fixed-term appointment from March 2026 to September 2027
26-year-old violinist Sueye Park has been appointed as professor of violin at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. Park, who won first prize at the 13th International Jean Sibelius Violin Competition in 2025, has been teaching her own violin class since March 2026.
Her role is initially a fixed-term appointment until September 2027.
Originally from South Korea, Park was accepted into the class of Ulf Wallin at the age of nine at the University for Music Hannes Eisler Berlin, where she subsequently completed her bachelor’s and master’s degrees.
As an educator, she has served as Wallin’s assistant and has taught at the the Eisler school since 2023.
Park will make her debut at the BBC Proms in July 2026, performing the Sibelius Violin Concerto with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by John Storgårds.
She has made solo appearances with orchestras including the Orchestra of the Komische Oper Berlin, the Staatskapelle Weimar, the Finnish Radio-Symphony Orchestra, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, the Korean Symphony Orchestra, KBS Symphony Orchestra and the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra. She has also performed at various festivals and concert halls in whole Europa, Israel, Tunisia, Indonesia and South Korea.
She released her debut album in 2017 of the 24 Paganini Caprices, followed by a recital album, Salut d’amour, on BIS Records. Other recordings include a solo violin collection Journey Through a Century, recordings of Isang Yun’s violin concertos with the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra and the complete works for violin and piano by Karol Symanowski with pianist Roland Pöntinen. She released Echoes of Exile in 2025.
Park plays a violin by Giovanni Battista Guadagnini ‘Hamma’, Milano 1753, kindly loaned by the Samsung Foundation of Culture.
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