Past Shows

MAY 2026

May 4-5 Helen Sung, RJAM Visiting Faculty Residency at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, San Francisco, CA

May 7 Helen Sung Oracles Big Band at Jazz TX, San Antonio, TX

May 8 Helen Sung Oracles Big Band at MONKS Jazz Club, Austin, TX

May 9 Helen Sung Oracles Big Band at Doc's Jazz Club, Houston, TX

May 13 w/Dee Dee Bridgewater (recipient of 2026 Transatlantic Bridge Award), EU Embassy, Washington, DC

May 14 Helen Sung (recipient of National Arts Club 2026 Claudette Sorel Award) with special guest Jon Faddis, National Arts Club, NYC

May 15 Helen Sung Solo Piano for the Milford Arts Council Jazz Series, the MAC, Milford, CT

May 19 Helen Sung Oracles Big Band CD Release Party with special guest Ron Carter at Dizzy's Club, Jazz at Lincoln Center, NY

May 20 w/Scott Robinson Quartet at Blues Alley, Washington, DC

May 21 w/Miles at 100 Celebration Concert, Reid Castle, Manhattanville University, Purchase, NY

May 24 w/Dee Dee Bridgewater, Pierre Boulez Saal, Berlin, GERMANY

May 25 w/Dee Dee Bridgewater, NICA Jazz Club, Hamburg, GERMANY

May 26 w/Dee Dee Bridgewater, De Singel, Antwerp, BELGIUM

May 29-30 w/Todd Coolman's Trifecta Trio, Mezzrow Jazz Club, NYC


APRIL 2026

Apr 6 w/Ted Nash Big Band: Portrait In Seven Shades, Dizzy's Jazz Club, Jazz at Lincoln Center, NYC

Apr 10-11 Helen Sung's Oracles: Quartet Edition featuring Buster Williams and Lenny White, The Jazz Forum, Tarrytown, NY

April 21 Helen Sung performs Mary Lou Williams' Oracle Suites for KSDS Jazz 88.3 FM, The Joan in Cygnet Theatre, San Diego, CA

Apr 22 Helen Sung, RJAM Visiting Faculty Residency at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, San Francisco, CA

Apr 25 w/McCoy Mrubata Quartet at Dizzy's Jazz Club, Jazz at Lincoln Center, NYC

Apr 30 Helen Sung, Pianist for International Jazz Day 2026, Chicago, IL


MARCH 2026

Mar 7 Helen Sung, featured Guest Artist for the Brooklyn Music School 2026 Middle School Jazz Festival, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY

Mar 9 Helen Sung, Guest Musical Director for Jazz at Lincoln Center's Future of Jazz Orchestra, Dizzy's Jazz Club, NYC

Mar 10-12 Helen Sung, RJAM Visiting Faculty Residency at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, San Francisco, CA

Mar 11 w/Patrick Wolff Quartet at Keys Jazz Bistro, San Francisco, CA

Mar 13 Helen Sung performs with SFCM RJAM Jazz Combos: Side-by-Side, Joe Henderson Lab, SFJAZZ, San Francisco, CA

Mar 18 w/Brian Shankar Adler Trio, Farnsworth Concert Series at the Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME

Mar 20 w/Brian Shankar Adler Trio at The Dance Hall, Kittery, ME

Mar 21 w/Brian Shankar Adler Trio, Harvard, MA


FEBRUARY 2026

Feb 1-3 w/Dee Dee Bridgewater (and more) for The Jazz Cruise '26 on Celebrity Summit, The Caribbean

Feb 4 Helen Sung, pianist for Brilliant Corners: A Tribute To Thelonious at Dizzy's Jazz Club, Jazz at Lincoln Center, NYC

Feb 6-8 Helen Sung's Live Wire Project at Birdland Theater, Birdland Jazz Club, NYC

Feb 8 w/Jody Redhage Ferber Trio for Carnegie Hall Citywide Series, Central Library, Dweck Center, Brooklyn, NY

Feb 9 w/Ted Nash Big Band: The Latin Side of Jazz, Dizzy's Jazz Club, Jazz at Lincoln Center, NYC

Feb 13-14 Helen Sung, Clinician & Performer for Jazz Outreach Initiative's 7th Annual Las Vegas Regional Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Festival, Artemus W. Ham Concert Hall (UNLV), Las Vegas, NV

Feb 15 Helen Sung, Artist for Jazz Outreach Initiative's 2026 Band Director Academy, UNLV, Las Vegas, NV

Feb 20 Helen Sung with Dr. Howard Aizenstein: Improvisation and the Brain Workshop, 2026 Pitt Jazz Big Band Festival, Frick Fine Arts Auditorium, University of Pittsburgh, PA

Feb 21 Helen Sung, Clinician & Adjudicator for 2026 Pitt Jazz Big Band Festival, Bellefield Hall Auditorium, University of Pittsburgh, PA

Feb 22 Helen Sung with the Pittsburgh Jazz Orchestra performing her Oracles Project, MCG Jazz Concert Hall, Pittsburgh, PA

Feb 23 w/Mark Lewandowski Quartet, Zinc Bar, NYC

Feb 24-26 Helen Sung, RJAM Visiting Faculty Residency at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, San Francisco, CA

Feb 28 Helen Sung, Clinician & Adjudicator for Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Festival, 2026 Carolina Jazz Festival, UNC at Chapel Hill, NC


JANUARY 2026

Jan 9 w/Mingus Dynasty for Winter JazzFest 2026 at Zinc Bar, NYC

Jan 10 w/Mingus Dynasty at Zinc Bar, NYC

Jan 16 w/Mingus Dynasty at Zinc Bar, NYC

Jan 17-18 Helen Sung, Adjudicator for the 2026 National Collegiate Jazz Championship, Jazz at Lincoln Center, NYC

Jan 20 Helen Sung, Artist Panelist for World Music Institute PLUS At Home Experience, Zoom Session, NYC

Jan 26 Helen Sung Trio for Jazz On The Mountain at the Mohonk Mountain House, New Paltz, NY

Jan 27-31 w/Dee Dee Bridgewater (and more) for The Jazz Cruise '26 on Celebrity Summit, The Caribbean


DECEMBER 2025

Dec 1-2 Helen Sung, RJAM Visiting Faculty Residency at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, San Francisco, CA

Dec 8 w/Mark Gross & Friends for the 2025 Vandoren Holiday Jazz Jam at the Zinc Bar, NYC

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

Dec 12 w/Abraham Burton Quartet at the Zinc Bar, NYC

Dec 13 Helen Sung, pianist for Music On The Inside (MOTI) Annual Gala, NYC

Dec 19-20 w/Scott Robinson Quartet at Smalls Jazz Club, NYC

Dec 29 Helen Sung's Live Wire Project at Smalls Jazz Club, 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 Loud, Episode 2: Poet and Writer Serena Yang
December 26, 2021 Helen Sung presents Reorientation: Asian American Artists Out Loud, Episode 3: Hip Hop Artist Heesun Lee

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