Introduced to the piano in her kindergarten music class in South Korea, Chaeyoung Park displayed her talent early. After immigrating to the U.S. at 10, she grew up in Lawrence, Kansas, and studied piano with Jack Winerock of the University of Kansas, whom she credits with much of her musical foundation. She won her first international competition at 13 and went on to victories in other competitions, including the 2022 Young Concert Artists Susan Wadsworth International Auditions. She earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees at Juilliard, where she was a Gina Bachauer Scholar, a Kovner fellow and recipient of the Arthur Rubinstein Prize. She completed her artist’s diploma under Robert McDonald and was awarded the Norman Benzaquen Career Advancement Grant.