Tricia Park

Fort Lee, New Jersey

Music House

Korean-American writer and classical violinist Tricia Park lifts the veil of cultural universalism that classical music hides behind. In an effort to confront the harmful anti-Asian stereotypes and model minority myths she encounters in her career as a professional classical musician, Tricia’s writing  probes Western imperialism’s effects on East Asian communities both at home and in diaspora. Below the exquisite melodies of Bach, a culture war persists that affects our notions of class, beauty, and what constitutes real music and by extension real people.  Tricia addresses these complexities with clarity of voice and sight in her essays on her podcast, Is it Recess Yet: Confessions of a Former Child Prodigy. Her commentary speaks across U.S. and Korean cultural contexts to reveal excruciatingly accurate insights.

Residency Focus: In keeping with the intersectional focus of her work, Tricia spends time at the residency experimenting with ways to fuse her writing and musicianship. Tricia works on her longform project, a blurred hybridization of fiction and memoir, while also completing an original solo violin composition inspired by her experiences in Corsicana.