Dr. Helen (Hye Jin) Park is an active professional flutist and award-winning educator focused on broadening community access to music. A native of Korea, her résumé includes orchestral performances at Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center in North America, as well as with revered Korean institutions such as the Keum-Pa Professional Flute Ensemble and Sung Nam City Orchestra. In recent years, Dr. Park has committed to her work as a pedagogue, serving on the faculty at Molloy College on Long Island.

Once a featured Teaching Artist in the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s OrchKids program, Dr. Park’s passion for teaching emerged early in her career. While a student at Yale, she conducted workshops in nine public schools within the New Haven region as part of the Music in Schools Initiative, earning recognition from Yale as its Outstanding Teaching Artist of the Year. 

Dr. Park wields a ferocious drive to excel as an educator, in part because of the extraordinary opportunities made by an educator in her own life. In 2005, renowned flutist Ransom Wilson noticed the promising talent of a 15-year old Hye Jin while giving masterclasses at a local music intensive. At the end of his one-week stay, Wilson invited her to attend the Idyllwild Arts Academy in California—all expenses paid. 

Given a new life in America thanks to the kindness and generosity of a single educator, she placed a premium on her own education, now holding degrees from the Oberlin Conservatory (B.M.), Manhattan School of Music (M.M.), Yale School of Music (M.M.A.), and Stony Brook University (D.M.A.). Ultimately, she aspires to pay forward the opportunities she received through education by founding a school that prioritizes underprivileged students.

In addition to her pedagogical work, Dr. Park co-founded the Clio Artist Project in late 2020, a performing artist collective centered around herself, guitarist Nicoletta Todesco, and soprano Emily Donato.  Helen Park lives on Long Island with her husband, bassoonist Dr. Dillon Meacham. In addition to Ransom Wilson, her mentors include Carol Wincenc, Michael Parloff, Alexa Still, Michel Debost, Sara Andon, and Soo Yeon Hong.