Chaeyoung Park, 2025 Cliburn International Piano Competition semi-finalist, makes her Steinway Society – The Bay Area premiere in a solo performance on Saturday, January 31, 2026, at 7:30pm in Saratoga’s McAfee Performing Arts Center. Tickets are available at www.steinwaysociety.com.
Praised as a pianist who “does not play a single note without thought or feeling” (New York Concert Review), Chaeyoung Park has emerged as one of today’s most compelling young artists. Her repertoire spans from French Baroque works by Rameau to Beethoven sonatas and music by living composers including Unsuk Chin.
She has appeared at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, Bravo! Vail Music Festival, Tongyeong International Music Festival, Ravinia, Symphony Center’s Orchestra Hall, and in live-streamed concerts for The Gilmore Rising Stars series. This past season she performed as a concerto soloist with the Maryland Symphony, Eugene Symphony, Mobile Symphony, and Redlands Symphony, under conductors including Michael Stern, Scott Speck, and Elizabeth Schulze. Upcoming performances include concerto engagements with the Pensacola Symphony, Brevard Philharmonic, Knoxville Symphony, Carolina Philharmonic, and Kansas City Symphony, and recitals for the Steinway Societies of Western Pennsylvania and the Bay Area, Ridotto Recital Series, and Bravo! Vail.
THE PROGRAM:
Debussy, Pour le piano
Bach-Brahms, Chaconne (from Violin Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004)
Brahms, Variations on a Theme by Paganini, Book 2
Granados, “El pelele” (from Goyescas)
Mompou, Scènes d’enfants: No. 5
Albéniz, “El puerto” (from Iberia)
Messiaen, Le baiser de l’Enfant-Jésus
Ravel, La Valse
TICKETS: Prices listed include all fees.
Single Tickets: $53 to $78
General Admission: $78/$68/$58
Senior & student: $73/$63/$53