Park Sisters Documentary: A Musical Journey of Distinction

The film follows their musical lives, beginning as children and performing together through their 50-year career. The Park sisters’ story is told by combining the narration with specific music taken from their live performances. Overcoming serious health issues and a family tragedy, theirs is a story of dedication and resolve.

Violinist Mi-Young Park and pianist Pong-Hi Park are two sisters who came to America following the Korean War.

Before emigrating to America, though they were quite young, the Parks had established a career both as individual soloists and as sisters performing together. Mi-Young was the prize student of Byeongso Ahn, a revered Korean violinist, conductor, composer, and educator who taught the leading young Korean violinists of that time. He had been a student of Willy Hess in Germany.

When Ahn passed away, the only photograph that was found among his papers showing him with students was one with the Park sisters. He considered them unique talents destined for international careers.

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