Pianist/composer
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
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 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
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