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Elena Moon Park is a musician and cultural producer living in Brooklyn, NY. She is a freelance violinist and multi-instrumentalist in NYC, specializing in family music and new music, and has performed on stages ranging from Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center to the Southbank Centre and the Melbourne International Arts Festival. She is also co-Artistic Director of the Brooklyn-based arts organization Found Sound Nation.
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Originally from Oak Ridge, TN, Elena studied anthropology and ethnomusicology at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL and completed her M.A. in Urban Policy from The New School in New York. Before moving to NYC, Elena briefly served as a development consultant for grassroots social justice organizations on the south and west sides of Chicago. While pursuing an urban policy degree from The New School, she began performing and touring the world with the all-ages folk rock band Dan Zanes and Friends, singing and playing violin, trumpet, mandolin, jarana, spoons, and musical saw.
 
In 2010, she began working with Found Sound Nation, a cultural arts nonprofit that designs and leads spaces for co-creation and exchange between artists & communities. From 2012-2025, Found Sound Nation led OneBeat, a partnership with the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs that brought together musicians from around the globe for creative collaboration, exchange and the incubation of music-based social impact projects. 
 
Since 2012, Elena has released three all-ages albums featuring reimagined folk and children's music from East and Southeast Asia, plus original songs inspired by the artwork of her longtime collaborator Kristiana Pärn: Rabbit Days and Dumplings (2012), Unhurried Journey (2020), and her newest album, Nothing Is Ordinary (2026). Elena leads her own all-ages folk rock live band, Elena Moon Park and Friends, and continues to travel the country and perform with all-ages musicians Sonia De Los Santos and Dan and Claudia Zanes.