Helen Park was born in Busan in Korea. Helen began studying the piano at the age of six. She earned her BA and M.Mus degrees in Piano performance from Yon Sei University in Seoul.
She worked as a pianist for the Dance department at Cheong Joo University and taught Piano Accompaniment and Music theory at Holiness Church College. She has published 17 books including, How to Accompany Hymn and Gospel peices, Christmas Carol Variation Book, and Music theory for piano students and was as lecturer at the Piano teachers’ training seminar in Kyungki, Choong Buk and Choong Nam area.
In 1996, Helen moved to New Zealand and worked as the accompanist at the Korean Broadcasting choir and at the Auckland Philharmonic orchestra (A.P.O).
She was also a columnist for Korea town, New Zealand Times and The New Korea Herald. Nowdays she teaches piano privately and composes piano solo pieces for people who want to be self-taught. She keeps a regularly updated music education blog at http://blog.naver.com/
Piano lessons can be watched on her YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/user/
https://godholdme56.wixsite.
Books
l How to accompany Hymn and Gospel pieces
l Easy ways of playing Hymns
l Christmas Carol Variation Book
l Practical melody with Bestin 1 - 5
l Music theory (e book)
l Questions and Answers of piano playing 1, 2 & 3 (e book)
l Methods for mastering piano playing 1 & 2 (e book)
l Musical common sense (e book)
l Water for the Soul
l Magic piano etudes 200 (e book)