 The Unfortunates Professional Equity Play April 13-29, 2012 |
Jazz Pianist
Sun., Sept. 25, 2011 / 4-6pm
The Edith Bolte Kutz Theater (Black Box) of the Lackland Center
Jazz In The Box
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Helen has had the unprecedented opportunity to study & perform with some of the greatest masters of jazz music. The septet performed with Clark Terry, Wynton Marsalis, Jimmy Heath, Jackie McLean, Bobby Watson, Harry "Sweets" Edison, and James Moody; and studied with such artists as Ron Carter (artistic director of the program), Barry Harris, David Baker, Slide Hampton, Lewis Nash, Jon Faddis, Curtis Fuller, Albert "Tootie" Heath, Bennie Maupin, and Sir Roland Hanna.
Helen has gone on to work with such jazz masters as Clark Terry, Slide Hampton, Benny Golson, Buster Williams, Wayne Shorter, Steve Turre, Steve Wilson, T.S.Monk, and MacArthur Fellow Regina Carter. She appears frequently with the Mingus Big Band and is a current member of Clark Terry's "Big Badd" Big Band. She was also a featured performer on PBS' In Performance at the White House for the Monk Institute's 20th Anniversary Celebration.
Sung is also a budding bandleader and has been featured on Marian McPartland's acclaimed Piano Jazz show, NPR's JazzSet w/DeeDee Bridgewater, and XM Radio's In the Swing Seat w/Wynton Marsalis. She has feature print pieces in such publications as Keyboard, Downbeat, JazzTimes, JazzIz, and AllAboutJazz. Sung's band has headlined at the Kennedy Center's Mary Lou Williams Jazz Festival, Fontana Chamber Arts Summer Festival, Clifford Brown Jazz Festival, Jazz Lucca Donna Festival (Italy), Kalisz International Jazz Piano Festival (Poland), Bern Jazz Festival, Tri-C Jazz Festival (Cleveland), Vermont Mozart Festival, the American Jazz Museum's Blue Room, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, and New York City's finest jazz venues.
Her experience at the Monk Institute inspires her to remain involved with music education by working arts organizations (such as JazzReach) and conducting workshops. Sung was a recipient of a Chamber Music America/Doris Duke Foundation grant enabling her quartet to conduct a jazz residency program for underserved youth in Camden, NJ.
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Individual Tickets: The Helen Sung Trio - Jazz Pianist $15.00 ($20.00 At the Door) Hyperion Knight- Gershwin by Knight $17.50 ($22.50 At the Door) The Rio Clemente Trio - Love Returns $15.00 ($20.00 At the Door) The Danny Mixon Trio-with a Blues Singer $17.50 ($22.50 At the Door) |
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