Faculty Accomplishments
Jihea Hong-Park Jihea Hong-Park, Associate Professor of Piano, continues to be involved in numerous virtual masterclasses, conferences and workshops at a state, national, and international level. Recently, she has led masterclasses at Loyola University New Orleans, Weber State University, Wharton Institute for the Performing Arts and Wuhan Conservatory of Music in China. She will also present a Professional Development workshop for the Teaching Artist faculty of Orchestra of St. Luke’s in NYC as well as appear as a guest speaker at the Socially Engaged Musicians Network Forum in Korea this spring. Ms. Hong-Park’s article, “ITAC5: On the Path to Self-Discovery” has been published by the Korea Arts and Culture Education Service in April 2021. Most recently, her paper presentation proposal, “The Necessity of Diversity and Cultural Representation in the Classrooms: Practical Strategies and Their Implementation” has been accepted at the upcoming UNESCO’s UNITWIN International Arts Education Symposium. As an active performer, Ms.Hong-Park will appear as a guest artist with the Ardelia Trio this summer at Bar Harbor Music Festival in Bar Harbor, Maine, performing works by Vivaldi, Beethoven, Rebecca Clarke, and Piazzolla.
Clémence Destribois Clémence Destribois grew up in Normandy, France, where she studied trumpet, organ, voice, harmony (part-writing), and music analysis in the conservatories of Le Havre, Rouen, and Caen. She earned a Diplôme d’Etat in music education in France, as well as a bachelor’s degree in organ performance and a master’s degree in musicology at BYU. Dr. Destribois received her Ph.D. in musicology in London (Royal Holloway), researching connections between theory and practice in seventeenth-century Italy with an emphasis on ensemble music. Dr. Destribois published an article entitled “From French Romances to Music for Benjamin Franklin: An Examination of the d’Artois Collection from the House of the Countess of Artois, Wife of King Charles X of France”. It is an article on a music manuscript collection preserved at the BYU music special collection. The article was published in the OctoberDecember 2020 issue of Fontes artis musicae, an international journal for music librarians and musicologists.
