The Warren Wolf & Helen Sung Duo
HELEN SUNG is a jazz pianist/composer and a Guggenheim Fellow. She diverged from her classical upbringing after encountering jazz during undergraduate studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Helen became part of the inaugural class of the Theloni- ous Monk Institute (renamed the Herbie Hancock Institute in 2019) of Jazz Performance at the New England Conservatory of
Music and won the Kennedy Center’s Mary Lou Williams Jazz Piano Competition. In addition to her band and album projects, Helen has performed and toured with such luminaries as Wayne Shorter, Ron Carter, and Wyn-
ton Marsalis. She is currently visiting faculty at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and an Associate Professor at Columbia University, where she also was the inaugural jazz artist-in-resi- dence at its Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Insti- tute, which explores analogies between jazz and neuroscience. Other activities of note include her large ensemble project “Big, Band, & Beyond”; a digital streaming series “Re-Orientation: Asian American Artists Out Loud”; and partnering with the National Jazz Museum in Harlem to present programs about the neuroscience behind making/hearing music to engage those liv- ing with Alzheimer’s and other dementias. “Sung plays with crisp swing and elegant invention, her rhythms drawing from the music’s deepest blues roots – and setting listeners’ heads bobbing – while she explores her own fresh ideas, often inspired from her classical training,” according to the New York Times .
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