Chung Park is an internationally recognized conductor, music educator, and editor. He is an associate professor of music at St. Olaf College where he conducts the award-winning St. Olaf Orchestra, teaches conducting, violin and viola. The  St. Olaf Orchestra maintains a strong presence on public radio's Performance Today, with performances receiving regular broadcasts on America's most popular classical music program. Park is an ardent believer in the value of a liberal arts education, the breadth and depth it provides, and the possibilities inherent in its ability to address the whole person.

Dr. Park has held positions at the University of Central Florida, Appalachian State University, the Idaho State-Civic Symphony, Idaho State University, Frost School of Music at the University of Miami, the University of Chicago, the University of North Dakota, and Indiana University-South Bend. Park maintains an active schedule as a guest conductor, working with student honor orchestras across the United States. He will lead all-state orchestras in Minnesota, North Carolina and Wyoming this academic year. Dr. Park serves as an editor for Bärenreiter-Verlag, the preeminent publisher of scholarly performance editions. His viola transcription of J.S. Bach's Six Suites for Violoncello Solo was released in the spring of 2023, and is used by students and faculty at top institutions internationally. A new viola transcription of Bach's Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin was released in October of 2025. 

Dr. Park has given string masterclasses and served as guest faculty at notable institutions including the Gifted Music School in Salt Lake City, Utah, and the Pierre Monteux School for Conductors and Orchestral Musicians in Hancock, Maine. Deeply engaged in the life of the American music education community, Dr. Park has given hundreds of clinics in schools throughout the United States for all levels. 

Dr. Park earned his doctorate in instrumental conducting from the University of Miami. He holds master of music degrees in orchestral conducting from the University of Illinois, viola performance from Western Michigan University, and a B.M. in viola performance from the Peabody Institute. Major influences on Dr. Park's pedagogical and musical philosophies come from Hatto Beyerle, founding violist of the Alban Berg Quartet, with whom he studied privately in Hanover, Germany and noted conductor and composer Thomas Sleeper. Dr. Park continues to work on expanding his pedagogical scope, studying theories of musicianship and psycho-acoustics with noted theoretician and musical scientist Marianne Ploger, emerita professor at Vanderbilt University and composition with Robert Gjerdingen, emeritus professor at Northwestern University. Dr. Park draws inspiration for his life and work from the writings of Wendell Berry and Thomas Merton.