About Suejin Jung
Suejin Jung is a Korean-American concert pianist and multimedia artist. Praised for her “exhilarating, alternately mysterious, lighthearted, but also profound, contemplative playing” (Opus Klassiek) and for “stepping outside the box—artistically and personally” (Goodmesh), she has appeared throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia as a soloist, chamber musician, and multimedia collaborator.
Rooted in classical tradition yet driven by innovation, Jung’s work often extends the concert stage into a space of collaboration with visual artists, dancers, and technologists. She is an active MUGIC® performer, working closely with composer–violinist Mari Kimura in premiering and developing new interactive works for piano and motion sensor. She is the co-founder and artistic director of MIMA (Music Interdisciplinary Multimedia Arts), a cross-disciplinary initiative that supports collaborative art-making and the education of young musicians. MIMA’s Young Artist Competition provides scholarships for study at the Montecito International Music Festival, where Jung serves on the piano faculty, and its winners have performed public showcases at Colburn’s Zipper Hall in Los Angeles.
A winner of the Goodmesh Concours for her multimedia project Breathmark—featured on her debut album with the TRPTK label—Jung has performed with Ensemble Calliopée, the Ruse Philharmonic, Rutgers Symphony, and The Discovery Orchestra, with broadcasts on PBS, NPO Klassiek, and The Strad. She has also performed in Los Angeles’s contemporary music series Tuesdays@Monk Space, Laguna Beach Live and at festivals including Music Academy International, Écoles d’Art Américaines de Fontainebleau, April in Santa Cruz, and the New York International Piano Competition.
An active educator, Jung has taught at Drew University, Rutgers University Extension Division, and the New York Music School, and has given performances and masterclasses as guest artist at UC Irvine, Cal State Riverside, Cal State Fullerton, Seoul Arts High School, Chamber Music | OC, Orbifold Global Music Festival, and Raritan Valley Community College. She serves on the board of the Music Teachers’ Association of California.
Jung earned her Bachelor’s, and Master’s degrees from The Juilliard School, where she received the Kamiya Sisters, Paul Jacobs Memorial, and G.G. Ulmer Memorial Scholarships; continued her studies at the École Normale de Musique de Paris as a Harriet Hale Woolley Fellow; and completed her Doctor of Musical Arts at Rutgers University.