Featured Artists: The Boston Trio
November 17 and 19, 2006

The Boston Trio’s debut performance in April, 1997 was greeted with such acclaim that the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences invited the ensemble to become Trio-in-Residence. One short year later the Boston Globe’s Richard Dyer called the Trio one of the Best of 1998. The musicians are all Boston based: Irina Muresanu, violin; Allison Eldredge, ‘cello; and Heng-jin Park, piano. Ms. Muresanu made her own solo debut with the Boston Classical Orchestra three years ago.

The group has since been presented by the Celebrity Series in Jordan Hall; at the Bay Chamber Concerts in Rockport, Maine; twice at Seiji Ozawa Hall in Tanglewood as part of the Tanglewood Prelude Concert Series; the Harvard Musical Association; for several summers in the Rockport Chamber Music Festival in Rockport, MA; at the Maine Center for the Arts, at Brigham Young University in Utah; and at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. In the spring of 2004 the Boston Trio traveled to Belgrade, Serbia to perform at Kolarac Foundation Hall.

Irina Muresanu, violin

Praised by the Boston Globe as "not just a virtuoso, but an artist…" Irina Muresanu has won universal acclaim as an outstanding young soloist, recitalist and chamber musician. “Muresanu brings dramatic edge, spine-tingling brilliance, and rhythmic tautness. Her playing was thrilling .“ (Boston Globe). The Los Angeles Times wrote that her “musical luster, melting lyricism and colorful conception made Irina Muresanu’s performance especially admirable.”
Irina Muresanu has appeared as a soloist with Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the Boston Pops, the Metropolitan Orchestra in Montreal, the Romanian National Radio Orchestra, and many others. She has taken top prizes and awards at the Montreal International Competition, Queen Elizabeth Violin Competition, UNISA International String Competition, Washington International Competition, and the Schadt String Competition. Irina Muresanu currently serves on the faculty of the Boston Conservatory, the Preparatory Division of New England Conservatory of Music, and the Music Department at MIT. Her violin is an 1856 Joseph Rocca and her Charles Peccat bow is courtesy of Mr. Mark Ptashne.

Allison Eldredge, ‘cello

Heralded as "a musician of remarkable gifts" by the Chicago Tribune, ‘cellist Allison Eldredge is a recipient of a prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant. She has performed with many of the world's foremost orchestras including the New York Philharmonic, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Saint Louis Symphony, the Boston Pops, Montreal Symphony, the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony, the Royal Philharmonic, and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. She has toured North America, Europe and Asia as featured soloist with such prominent ensembles as the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, the Haifa Symphony, and leading ensembles of Japan.

Sought after as a chamber musician, she has shared the stage with numerous acclaimed artists, among them Andre Previn, Joshua Bell, Yo-Yo Ma, and Gil Shaham. Allison Eldredge was born in New York City where she graduated from the Juilliard School. She now lives in the Boston area with her husband, pianist Max Levinson and their daughter Natalie, and is on the faculty of the New England Conservatory.

Heng-Jin Park, piano

Heng-Jin Park has been praised by Richard Dyer in the Boston Globe as, "A centered musician with uncommon control over the sonorous possibilities of her instrument; she plays boldly with a full spectrum of colors, expertly mixed"

Joan Reinthaler in the Washington Post wrote, "Heng-Jin Park is a pianist and an ensemble player of unusual artistry and musical imagination"

Ms. Park was born in Korea and raised in the Boston area. She started studying the piano at the age of 5. She studied with Leonard Shure and Russell Sherman at the New England Conservatory and received her Bachelor and Master Degrees there. She also worked with Marie-Françoise Bucquet at Conservatoire National Superieur de la Musique de Paris and concertized in France and Switzerland.

Heng-Jin Park made her debut with the Boston Pops Orchestra in Boston Symphony Hall at the age of 15 and has returned as soloist to perform the Mendelssohn Concerto with the Boston Pops with John Williams conducting. She has performed in Alice Tully Hall and Carnegie Hall in New York City, the Library of Congress, the Ambassador Hall in California, Jordan Hall, Gardner Museum, Taos School in New Mexico, Ernen Music Festival in Switzerland, many important halls in France, and at the Banff Center for the Arts in Canada.

Ms. Park has won a number of awards and prizes including the Tourje Grant for graduate study and the Frank H. Beebe Grant for study abroad. She was a prizewinner in the Coleman National Chamber Music Competition and the Monterey Peninsula Chamber Music Competition. She has given masterclasses at Longy School of Music, Brigham Young University, University of Kansas, and at Penn State University. Ms. Park currently serves on the faculties of M.I.T. and the New England Conservatory Preparatory School.

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