Helen Sung

Helen Sung (* Houston ) is an American jazz pianist and composer ..

Helen Sung has Chinese ancestors; She began her musical training on piano and the violin and attended Houston's High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. Then she continued her studies of classical piano at the University of Texas at Austin, where she earned a master. During this time they first came into contact with jazz; In 1995, she was then taken into the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Performance at the New England Conservatory of Music; where she studied with Ron Carter and Roland Hanna. After her graduation in 1997 Sung briefly worked in the jazz scene of Boston, before she moved to New York City. There she played in the band of saxophonist Gregory Tardy, also worked with Lonnie Plaxico, Steve Wilson, Scott Tixier and Kenny Grohowski. She took since the early 2000s with his own bands, a number of albums under his own name, was released in 2004 on Fresh Sound Records released their debut album Push. In 2006 she received a scholarship for a chamber work; In 2007 she won the Kennedy Center Mary Lou Williams the competition and performed in Marian McPartlands NPR Piano Jazz show.

Helen Sung lives in New York City. She also worked in the course of her career with Slide Hampton, Benny Golson, Buster Williams, Wayne Shorter, Regina Carter, played in the Mingus Big Band, Clark Terry's "Young Titans of Jazz" Big Band, with TS Monk and Steve Turre.

Disco Graphical Notes

• 2004 - PUSH
• 2006 - Helenistique
• 2007 - " Sungbird (after Albeniz ) "
• 2010 - " Going Express"