Conductor and Pianist

Dan Gillingwater conductor
Daniel Gillingwater was educated at St Ignatius College, Enfield, University College, Cardiff and The Slade. As an Actor he has been in: Midsummer Nights Dream, As you like it, Stepping Out, The King and I, West Side Story, Do I hear a Waltz, Chess, Merrily we Roll Along, Sweeny Todd, Lady be Good, Too Mavellous for Words, Something for the Boys, Knickerbocker Holiday, One Touch of Venus, Side by Side by Sondheim, Easy to Love. Opera: Falstaff, Barber of Seville, Marriage of Figaro, Ceneretola, La Boheme TV: Nelson (BBC). Film: Let's Make an Opera, Falstaff, Warlock. Videos: When the Sun Goes In. Chugnut Productions. He designed the sets for Beauty and the Beards – Kings Head Theatre and Black Slap and Sequins - Landor Theatre.

With his painting hat on Dan has exhibited widely with solo exhibitions at the' Space Gallery, Isle of Dogs, The Castle Gallery Battersea and the Penthouse Gallery EC1, Group exhibitions include the London Sketch Club, the Chelsea Arts Club, 100 years of painting the Bridge at Grez – Exhibition at Grez sur Loire, and the Battersea Arts Fair and The Mall Galleries, London. He has been artist residence for the Cardiff Festival of Music, the Modern Music Theatre Troupe and Holland Park Opera.

Dan was Music Director of the Charing Cross Hospital Choir from 1987 - 1992. He founded and remains the MD of The Chelsea Arts Club Choir. Repertoire includes: Faure, Ravel, Durufle, Elgar, Stanford, Finzi, Warlock, Moeran, Howells, Britten, Holst, Rutter, Rachmaninov, Handel, Mozart, Bach. He has also conducted The Manchester University Chamber Choir and Orchestra, Cardiff University Chamber Orchestra and the London Gay Men's Choir.

Dan's composing has been primarily been in the field of vocal music, especially choral. His set of three unaccompanied SATB songs With Love have been performed widely, in South Africa as well as Great Britain. Allegretto - Maestoso for strings he wrote and conducted with the Forest Philharmonic Orchestra. At the moment Dan has just finished setting three poems from William Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience for the London Gay Men's Chorus.

Jong-Gyung Park pianist

Jong-Gyung Park made her orchestral debut at the age of thirteen with Boston Symphony Orchestra and has since appeared with Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Haifa Symphony Orchestra, Montevideo Symphony Orchestra, Royal Orquesta Sinfonica de Galicia, Royal Chamber Orchestra of Wallonia, Belgian National Orchestra, and New Hampshire Symphony Orchestra.

Ms. Park has performed in recital throughout the United States, South America, Europe, Israel, and the Far East. Her recent concert activities include solo and chamber music recitals in concert series in Solothurn, Switzerland, the Royal theatre of Monnaie in Brussels, the Sala Verdi in Milan and the Seoul Arts Centre. She is regularly invited to give masterclasses in the United States, Korea, and South America.

Jong-Gyung Park began piano lessons in her native Korea at the age of three. She is a graduate of the New England Conservatory in Boston, United States taught by Russell Sherman and Wha Kyung Byun under full scholarship, and holds an Artist’s Diploma from the Hochschule für Music und Theatre in Munich, Germany in class of Elisso Wirssaladze. She was also invited to study at the International Piano Foundation Academy in Lake Como, Italy where she studied with Leon Fleisher, Dmitri Bashkirov, Fou Ts'ong and Charles Rosen among others.

Ms. Park has received numerous international awards including Bronze medals at the Sviatoslav Richter International piano competition just last year, and the Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition in Italy where she also received Busoni Prize for commissioned work and the 9th Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Masters Competition in Israel and Laureate at the Queen Elisabeth International Music Competition in Belgium. She lives and works in United Kingdom.