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"Northern Lights Music Festival opened on February 20 with more enthusiasm than ever before....What a splendid evening of music. Master pianist Angela Park played Shostakovich (Piano Concerto No. 1) with such brilliant clarity it took your breath away."
- Lakeside Living, Chapala, Mexico, March 2008.
"Throughout the work (Clarke Sonata for Viola and Piano), Angela Park showed complete mastery of the elaborate piano part, with its virtuosic passages, especially in the second movement. Ms. Park was equally adept at handling the alternating delicate and percussive sections….a deeply-felt performance…
…the quartet’s unforced tone, confidence and energy were noteworthy. All splendid individual players, as a quartet they performed as one, always supportive, never assertive, united in their devotion to the music."
- Peter Milner, The Lindsay Post, October 2007 (Concert with Made In Canada for the Lindsay Concert Foundation)
"Angela Park, a wonderful Canadian pianist with a beautiful tone and a great deal of polish. Her slow playing was especially sensitive... it was the best performance of this sonata (Beethoven Sonata No.13) I have ever heard!"
- Donald Vroon, American Record Guide, 2003
"...you gave me and the rest of the audience a most exhilarating performance; a musical, enthusiastic, passionate, and intelligent experience. After the Shostakovich (Sonata for Cello and Piano), for example, the involvement was so intense -- from you and with you....that I couldn't imagine a better performance. The Dvorak (Trio op. 65) was enthralling. The togetherness between the three of you was very moving to see and to hear."
- Dorothy Sandler-Glick, Syrinx Concerts with Gwen Smith (cello) and Alex Lozowski (violin), 2007
"How wonderful! When a music critic or journalist must write a review of a concert, he would probably make some notes during the performance. When Angela Park played her programme in this second round, she played Schumann's Fantasy in such a great style, so captivating that I was enjoying it intensely. I was listening with great attention, and I did not wish to make any notes... her Schumann was simply outstanding in atmosphere and tone."
- Gustav Alink, 57th World Piano Competition, 2003
"Park flawlessly rendered a series of dazzling and dramatic variations, bringing the concerto (Mozart K. 491) to a conclusion and the audience to its feet."
- The London Free Press, April 2003
"A high degree of professionalism was evident plus a technical command of the instrument and refined and sensitive musicianship."
- Patricia Parr, the University of Toronto, April 2003
"Stunningly beautiful pianism."
- Grace Welsh Prize for Piano, Chicago Illinois, May 2002
"Evidently in her element here, Angela showed remarkable nimble fingers, tonal imagination, excellent control of fast passages, arabesques and delicacy of filigree. Poissons d'or reached a truly professional level with power of evocation."
- Marietta Orlov, the University of Toronto, May 2002
"Angela has been the most refined and promising pianist to study here at the Faculty of Music in the last ten years. She is a young talent of rare distinction, destined to take her place in the professional life of this country."
- William Aide, the University of Toronto
"Angela Park did a fantastic job playing one of my pieces at the Faculty Artists Series Concert at the University of Toronto. Her interpretation is imaginative, tasteful, and spontaneous. She is a major talent, waiting to be discovered!"
- Chan Ka Nin, the University of Toronto
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