{"id":163,"date":"2012-09-18T17:32:41","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T17:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/somainfo.org\/?page_id=163"},"modified":"2017-03-17T22:07:45","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T22:07:45","slug":"first-place-seong-ah-park","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/?page_id=163","title":{"rendered":"2012 First Place : Seong Ae Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\">Soprano<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Recipient of the 2012 First Place<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Marie &amp; Mack Milner Award<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">and\u00a0the Gerald R. Bischof Audience Choice Award<\/h4>\n<div id=\"attachment_411\" style=\"width: 222px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/2012-Seong-Ae-Park-Head1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-411\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-411\" title=\"2012 Seong Ae Park Head\" src=\"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/2012-Seong-Ae-Park-Head1-212x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/2012-Seong-Ae-Park-Head1-212x300.png 212w, https:\/\/soma-info.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/2012-Seong-Ae-Park-Head1.png 253w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-411\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Seong Ae Park<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\">Born in Seoul, South Korea, Seong Ae Park earned her Bachelors degree in Yansel University, South Korea.\u00a0 She continued her studies at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory of Milan in Italy.\u00a0 She obtained her diploma from the Academia Civica di Milano.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\">Ms. Park has participated in Master Classes with Fulvio Bottega and P. M. Ferraro.\u00a0 During her studies she was engaged to sing numerous concerts around Europe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\">Ms. Park has placed and received awards in many memorable competitions such as the Biella Competition, Pietro Mongini Competition, Vincenza Competition and the U. Sacchetti Competition in Bologna.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\">With her pure lyric voice and \u201cbel canto\u201d technique, Ms. Park has enjoyed performing Cio Cio San in Puccini\u2019s\u00a0<em>Madama Butterfly<\/em>,\u00a0 Mimi in\u00a0<em>La Boheme<\/em>\u00a0the Contessa in\u00a0<em>Le Nozze di Figaro<\/em>\u00a0and Santuzza in\u00a0<em>Cavalleria Rusticana.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\">Ms. Park has also enjoyed performing concerts in numerous Italian cities (Lanciano, Bologna, Cremona, Milano, Novara, Ispira, Brecia, Verona, Genova and has also appeared in Zurich, Paris and more recently in Dallas, Texas)\u00a0 She also has performed oratorio works such as Messa da Requiem by Giuseppe Verdi and Messe Solennelle by Giacomo Rossini.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Sunday, May 20, 2012<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/address>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TJL-RBH1DS8\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"360\" height=\"240\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Pace, pace mio Dio<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><\/strong> from La FORZA del DESTINO by Verdi <\/span><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">and<\/span><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong> Dove sono<\/strong> <\/span><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">from Le NOZZE di FIGARO by Mozart<\/span><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\">Seong Ae was accompanied by Teruhiko Toda<\/span><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\"> HD video by Robert Land Productions<\/span><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/address>\n<div id=\"attachment_420\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/2012-Park-Family.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-420\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-420\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/2012-Park-Family-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/2012-Park-Family-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/soma-info.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/2012-Park-Family.jpg 436w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-420\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Park Family<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/2012-Hibiscus-Park.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-422\" src=\"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/2012-Hibiscus-Park.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"85\" height=\"88\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/h4>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong><a title=\"Second Place : Heather Engebretsen\" href=\"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/?page_id=165\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\">Heather Engebretsen<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong><a title=\"Third Place : Dana Pundt\" href=\"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/?page_id=168\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\">Dana Pundt<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong><a title=\"Audience Choice : Shea Owens\" href=\"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/?page_id=170\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\">Shea Owens<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a title=\"2012 Photo Gallery\" href=\"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/?page_id=179\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Our 2012 Photo Gallery<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soprano Recipient of the 2012 First Place Marie &amp; Mack Milner Award and\u00a0the Gerald R. Bischof Audience Choice Award Born in Seoul, South Korea, Seong Ae Park earned her Bachelors degree in Yansel University, South Korea.\u00a0 She continued her studies at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory of Milan in Italy.\u00a0 She obtained her diploma from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":161,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-163","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":43,"href":"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5435,"href":"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/163\/revisions\/5435"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}