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Helen Sung

Helen Sung

Pianist/composer

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Itinerary

SEPTEMBER 2025

Sept 3 w/Quincy Davis Quintet at Dizzy's Jazz Club, Jazz at Lincoln Center, NYC

Sept 4 Helen Sung presents Big, Band & Beyond for the Chicken Bone Beach Jazz Foundation's 25th Anniversary Jazz On The Beach Concert Series, Atlantic City Boardwalk, Atlantic City, NJ

Sept 8 Helen Sung, pianist for Kate Rigg's disOrientalism Part 8: Godzilla vs the Karens, Joe's Pub, NYC

Sept 9-10 Helen Sung, RJAM Visiting Faculty Residency at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, San Francisco, CA

Sept 23-27 Helen Sung, with Coltrane Revisited - 24th Anniversary at Birdland Jazz Club, NYC


OCTOBER 2025

Oct 6 w/Ted Nash Big Band, Dizzy's Jazz Club, Jazz at Lincoln Center, NYC

Oct 8-10 Helen Sung, RJAM Visiting Faculty Residency at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, San Francisco, CA

Oct 12 Helen Sung, pianist for Young Lions Conservatory The Shape of Jazz to Come Gala, Coasterra, San Diego, CA

Oct 13-14 Helen Sung, Visiting Residency at Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL

Oct 17 w/Mingus Dynasty at Zinc Bar, NYC

Oct 25 Warren Wolf Duo w/Helen Sung, Benefit Concert for Stony Run Friends Meeting, Baltimore, MD

Oct 26 Helen Sung, pianist for Jazz at Lincoln Center Family Show: Who is Thelonious Monk? David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center, NYC

Oct 31 Helen Sung, solo piano for Rashid Johnson's Sanguine, as part of his "A Poem for Deep Thinkers" Exhibit at the Guggenheim Museum, NYC
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Past Shows

AUGUST 2025

Aug 4 w/Ted Nash Big Band: "88", Dizzy's Jazz Club, Jazz at Lincoln Center, NYC

Aug 5-8 Helen Sung, Faculty for Vermont Jazz Center's Summer Jazz Workshop, The Putney School, Putney, VT

Aug 6 Helen Sung presents Jazz at Lincoln Center's Swing U: The Music of Horace Silver, NYC

Aug 13 Helen Sung presents Jazz at Lincoln Center's Swing U: The Music of Horace Silver, NYC

Aug 15 w/Mingus Dynasty at Zinc Bar, NYC

Aug 20 Helen Sung presents Jazz at Lincoln Center's Swing U: The Music of Horace Silver, NYC

Aug 22-24 Helen Sung, pianist for "Tell It Like It Is" Wayne Shorter Birthday Celebration in Birdland Theater, NYC

Aug 28 w/Mingus Big Band, Queens Jazz Trail Concert Series, Archie Spigner Park, Jamaica, Queens


​​​​​JULY 2025

July 13-20 Helen Sung, Faculty for Jazz at Lincoln Center's Summer Jazz Academy, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

July 21-27 Helen Sung, Faculty for Centrum's Jazz Port Townsend, Fort Worden State Park, WA

July 30 Helen Sung presents Jazz at Lincoln Center's Swing U: The Music of Horace Silver, NYC


JUNE 2025

June 2 w/Ted Nash Big Band: Music of the Jazz Age, Dizzy's Jazz Club, Jazz at Lincoln Center, NYC

June 6 Helen Sung Quartet at Smalls Jazz Club, NYC

June 7 Helen Sung Quartet at Smalls Jazz Club, NYC

June 11 w/Scott Robinson Quartet at Blues Alley, Washington DC


MAY 2025

May 1-3 w/Mingus Big Band at Birdland Jazz Club, NYC

May 5-6 Helen Sung, Visiting Faculty Residency at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, San Francisco, CA

May 8 Helen Sung, Featured Artist at the 25th Annual CUNY Jazz Festival, Aaron Davis Hall (Theatre B) at The City College of New York, NYC

May 9 w/Patrick Cornelius Octet at Bar Bayeux, Brooklyn, NY

May 16 w/Mingus Dynasty at the Zinc Bar, NYC

May 21 w/Cecile McLorin Salvant's Ogresse at Carnegie Hall's Zankel Hall, NYC

May 22 w/Mingus Dynasty at The Jazz Club at Aman New York, NYC

May 23-25 w/Scott Robinson Quartet at Birdland Theater, Birdland Jazz Club, NYC

May 29-31 w/Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra: The JLCO Plays The 70s (with special guests Tom Harrell and Hubert Laws), Rose Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center, NYC


APRIL 2025

April 2-5 Helen Sung Residency with Bach Aria Soloists, Kansas City, MO

April 5 Helen Sung Meets Bach Aria Soloists, Folly Jazz Series at the Folly Theatre, Kansas City, MO

April 10 Helen Sung with Lives Of The Saints CD Release, Dizzy's Club, Jazz at Lincoln Center, NYC

April 11 w/Dee Dee Bridgewater: Sacred Concert at Christ Church Cranbrook, Bloomfield Hills, MI

April 14-19 w/Mingus Big Band at Ronnie Scott's, London, UK

April 20-21 w/Mingus Dynasty at Opera North, Howard Assembly Room, Leeds, UK

April 25 w/saxophonist McCoy Mrubata at Newport Live: South African Freedom Day Celebration at The Casino Theatre, Newport, RI

April 26 w/saxophonist McCoy Mrubata at Dizzy's Club, Jazz at Lincoln Center, NYC

April 30 w/Mingus Big Band at Birdland Jazz Club, NYC


MARCH 2025

Mar 3-9 Helen Sung Guest Residency at the Guildhall School of Music, London, UK

Mar 6 Duo Piano Masterclass with Sullivan Fortner, Guildhall School of Music, London, UK

Mar 9 Helen Sung with the Guildhall Big Band: Portraits In Jazz, Milton Court Theatre, London, UK

Mar 13-14 Helen Sung, Visiting Faculty Residency at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, San Francisco, CA

Mar 22 Helen Sung with San Diego Symphony's Piano Paragons: The Music of Monk, Powell, Tatum, & Corea, Jacobs Center for the Arts, San Diego, CA

Mar 25 w/Warren Wolf at An Die Musik, Baltimore, MD

Mar 28 w/Chris Washburne & Dr. Michael Shadlen: Keynote for Columbia University's 2025 Music Department Conference Committee: Co-creating: Collaboration in Music Studies, Dodge Hall, Columbia University, NYC

Mar 29 w/Mingus Big Band at Yale Arts Willie Ruff Memorial Concert, Woolsey Hall, Yale University, New Haven, CT

Mar 30 Helen Sung: Solo Piano Concert for Music Mountain Winter Concert Series at Troutbeck, Amenia, NY



FEBRUARY 2025

Feb 3 w/Ted Nash Big Band: CHAKRA at Dizzy's Jazz Club, Jazz at Lincoln Center, NYC

Feb 6 w/Mingus Big Band at STAR Jazz Club at Aman, NYC

Feb 11 Helen Sung Live Wire Quartet at Jazz, TX Jazz Club, San Antonio, TX

Feb 12 Helen Sung Live Wire Quartet at Parker Jazz Club, Austin, TX

Feb 13 Helen Sung Live Wire Quartet Chamber Music America 2025 National Conference: Houston!, El Dorado Ballroom, Houston, TX

Feb 17-19 
Helen Sung, Visiting Faculty Residency at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, San Francisco, CA

Feb.26 Helen Sung Trio at Mezzrow, NYC

Feb 27 Helen Sung and Dr. Michael Shadlen present Music On The Brain: Sing Me Somethin' New! at National Jazz Museum in Harlem, NYC


JANUARY 2025

Jan 8 w/Mingus Big Band at DROM, NYC 

Jan 9 Helen Sung Panelist for Women in Jazz Town Hall at Jazz Congress 2025, Jazz at Lincoln Center, NYC

Jan 11 Helen Sung presents Big, Band, & Beyond: Portraits in Jazz at The Unity Jazz Festival, Ertegun Atrium, Jazz at Lincoln Center, NYC

Jan 12 Helen Sung Live Wire Quartet at Jazz on the Mountain Festival, Mohonk Mountain House, New Paltz, NY

Jan 24 Oregon Jazz Festival presents Helen Sung Trio (with University of Oregon faculty), Ragozzino Hall, Lane Community College, Eugene, OR

Jan 25 Oregon Jazz Festival presents Helen Sung with the LCC Big Band and Oregon Jazz Ensemble, Beall Concert Hall, Eugene, OR

Jan 27-29 Helen Sung, Visiting Faculty Residency at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, San Francisco, CA


DECEMBER 2024

Dec 1 w/vocalist Carolyn Leonhart at The Django, NYC

Dec 2 w/Ted Nash Big Band: Happy Holidays! at Dizzy's Jazz Club, Jazz at Lincoln Center, NYC

Dec 4-6 Helen Sung, Visiting Faculty Residency at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, San Francisco, CA

Dec 18 w/Mingus Big Band at DROM, NYC

Dec 31 w/Mingus Big Band at STAR Jazz Club at Aman, NYC



Video and Streaming

May 21, 2022 Helen Sung Trio at the 2022 Newton Piano Summit

December 12, 2021 Helen Sung presents Reorientation: Asian American Artists Out Loud,
Episode 1: Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya
December 17, 2021 Helen Sung presents Reorientation: Asian American Artists Out LoudEpisode 2: Poet and Writer Serena Yang
December 26, 2021 Helen Sung presents Reorientation: Asian American Artists Out LoudEpisode 3: Hip Hop Artist Heesun Lee

September 17, 2021 Quartet+ EPK and official release date on Sunnyside Records




DISCOGRAPHY

Latest Release:
Helen Sung Quartet With The Special Guests Harlem Quartet

Helen Sung Quartet With The Special Guests Harlem Quartet

Releases as Leader:

Helen Sung with Marquis Hill, Everybody's Waltz
Sung with Words
Anthem for a New Day
(re)Conception
Going Express
Sung Bird
Helenistque
Push

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