Background of Principal
Musicians/ Soloist
David Stewart Wiley, Artistic Director & Conductor
of Virginia’s Blue Ridge Music Festival, serves concurrently as
Music Director & Conductor of New York’s Long Island
Philharmonic and Virginia’s Roanoke Symphony Orchestra
. Active as a guest conductor, pianist, arranger and film
composer, Wiley has guest conducted acclaimed symphonies
including Boston, Buffalo, Cincinnati, San Francisco, Milwaukee,
Indianapolis, Minnesota, Saint Louis, Atlanta, Oregon, Honolulu,
and Utah, among many others in 35 U.S. states. Wiley’s music
career has taken him to dozens of countries in Europe, Asia, and
Africa. He has previously served as Assistant Conductor of the
Minnesota Orchestra and the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra.
Among his diverse activities, he created and leads an acclaimed
event with business executives and musicians together on stage
titled
which helps executives to model
leadership skills in a fun and engaging atmosphere.
2012 saw the international release of the film “Lake Effects”
starring Jane Seymour, featuring a symphonic soundtrack played
by the RSO conducted by David Stewart Wiley with new original
music by Boyle and Wiley. In the fall of 2012, Wiley hosted another
trip to Europe culminating with a performance at the Liszt
Academy in Budapest.
David’s U.S. Summer Music Festival conducting appearances
include Aspen, Brevard, The Music Academy of the West,
Tanglewood, Park City, Minnesota Orchestra Summerfest,
Indianapolis Symphony on the Prairie, and many others. From
1999 until 2006, Wiley was the Artistic Director & Conductor of the
Wintergreen Summer Music Festival, where he founded the
Festival Orchestra and Academy. His seven years at Wintergreen as
artistic director and conductor were a time of remarkable artistic
and financial growth for WPA, where he programmed and led over
100 performances of symphony, jazz, chamber music, and
educational concerts.
Wiley's CDs include an album of French cello concerti with Zuill
Bailey & the Roanoke Symphony on Delos International,
Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 "Choral", American Piano Concertos
with Norman Krieger on Artisie 4, "David Wiley & Friends: Classical
Jazz", "American Trumpet Concertos" with the Slovak Radio
Symphony and Paul Neebe, and violin/piano duo CD "Preludes &
Lullabies" with Akemi Takayama.
Wiley holds a Doctor and Master of Music in Conducting from
Indiana University, a degree in Piano Performance with honors
from the New England Conservatory of Music, and a degree in
Religion, summa cum laude, from Tufts University. Wiley was
honored by the NAACP as Citizen of the Year in the Arts, and he is
a recipient of the Perry F. Kendig Prize for service to the arts.
As a solo pianist, Wiley has performed with numerous major
orchestras throughout the United States including Minnesota,
Indianapolis, Oregon, Honolulu, Wheeling, and at the Aspen, Garth
Newel, Wintergreen, and Prince Albert (Hawaii) summer festivals.
He has also appeared as a jazz pianist in Boston's Symphony Hall
and in recital appearances throughout the U.S. as well as in China,
Russia, Romania, Germany, the Czech Republic, Italy, and Bulgaria.
Wiley collaborates with a diversity of well-known solo artists and
groups in the Classical and Pops world, including Billy Joel, Sir
James Galway, Jessye Norman, Midori, Lynn Harrell, John Williams,
Andre Watts, Jon Nakamatsu, Eiji Oue, Norman Krieger, Zuill
Bailey, Giora Schmidt, Christian Zacharias, Orly Shaham,
Bernadette Peters, Bruce Hornsby, Jennifer Holliday, Marvin
Hamlisch, Mercedes Ellington, Lou Rawls, Doc Severinsen, Aaron
Neville, Michael McDonald, Art Garfunkel, the Pointer Sisters, Ben
Vereen, Kool & the Gang, Cirque, Jeans n’ Classics, Boz Skaggs, Billy
Ocean, K.C. & the Sunshine Band, The Moscow Ballet, and Sounds
of Blackness. Wiley website
David H. Park, Co-Concertmaster
,
‘a soloist with
extraordinary artistic gifts’ (
Salt Lake Tribune
), ‘that commands
respect’ (
Le Journal Sud Ouest
), started playing the violin at the
age of five in Seoul, Korea. Park has studied with two of the most
distinguished pedagogues, Josef Gingold and Dorothy Delay. He
received his Bachelor of Music at the University of Indiana and
Master of Music at the Juilliard School. At the age of 14, he was
one of the youngest students of the legendary Jascha Heifetz.
Park maintains a balance between his engagements as soloist with
orchestras throughout the world and his recital and chamber
music activities. Park appeared as a soloist with the Utah
Symphony, the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, the New York
Festival Orchestra, the Korean Chamber Orchestra, Aspen Music
Festival Orchestra, the Daegu Symphony, the Inchon Symphony
and the Santa Ana Symphony. Park has given recitals in many of
the world's great concert halls including Carnegie Weill Hall and
Alice Tully Hall in New York, Salle Pleyel in Paris, and Sejong Music
Center in Seoul. Park has also performed on national television and
radio broadcasts in the United States, France, Hong Kong and
Korea. Recently, he has been featured on CBS 2 News and FOX 13
News, as well as Sirius XM National Radio hour-long program of
live performance and interview on Bach Sonatas and Partitas.
Furthermore, Park has participated as both soloist and chamber
musician in music festivals of Aspen, Santa Barbara, Vienna, and
Aix-en-Provence.
Some of Park's highlights include his first return to Seoul, Korea,
performing the Lalo
Symphonie Espagnole
with the Seoul
Philharmonic. Park made his New York debut performing Vivaldi's
Four Seasons
in Carnegie Weill Hall. Also, making his debut in Aix-
en-Provence Music Festival, he performed both solo and chamber
music in collaboration with Augustin Dumay which was
broadcasted nationally by France Musique, the premier classical
radio station in France. In a highly anticipated Cultural Exchange
Gala Concert, Park soloed with the Pyongyang State Orchestra of
North Korea. Recently, he performed with Roanoke Symphony,
Crown City Symphony, Pan-Asia Symphony Orchestra in Hong
Kong, and Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra as a Guest Concertmaster.
Furthermore, Park was invited to give a recital for the Musique au
Coeur du Medoc concert series in Bordeaux, France. He has
presented rare series of concerts pairing Stradivari and Guarneri
del Gesu violins with critical acclaim. In 2012, Park will make his
debut at the Merkin Hall in New York soloing with the Ureuk
Symphony Orchestra.
Park is a Professor of Violin at the University of Utah. In 2005, Park
held a position of Distinguished Artist at the University of
California Santa Barbara. He has served on the jury of the Irving M.
Klein International Competition in San Francisco. As a
concertmaster, he has worked with Leonard Slatkin, Myung Whun
Chung, Joseph Silverstein, John Williams, Keith Lockhart, Robert
Mann, and Reinhart Goeble of Antiqua Cologne.
In 2011, Park’s passion for Bordeaux wines culminated in his
induction as Commandeur d’Honneur for an exclusive wine society
in Bordeaux, France, Commanderie du Bontemps de Medoc et des
Graves Sauternes et Barsac. Some of its distinguished members
are Prince Philip, Queen Paola of Belgium, Placido Domingo,
Ben Kingsley, and Hugh Grant.
