Janet Sung, Violin

Biography

Praised by Maestro Leonard Slatkin in The Pittsburgh Press, as a "major musical personality" for her "blending of bravura technique with a logical sense of musical style," violinist Janet Sung has appeared as soloist with the Pittsburgh Symphony, the Aspen Chamber Symphony under David Zinman, the Pusan Philharmonic in South Korea, the Hartford, Delaware, Wheeling, Corpus Christi, Owensboro, and Adrian Symphony Orchestras, the Wyoming, Dubuque, and Jupiter Symphonies, and the Hot Springs Music Festival Orchestra. Her recent performance of the Korngold Concerto has been broadcast across the U.S. on NPR’s Performance Today on three occasions. Recent recital appearances include a debut recital at the Lucerne Festival in Switzerland and in Cleveland. She was the 2003-04 Clifton Visiting Artist at Harvard University for the “Learning from Performers” series.

Internationally, Ms. Sung has also given recitals in Lausanne, Switzerland (recorded by Radio Suisse Romande-Espace 2), Queenstown, New Zealand (broadcast on Radio New Zealand’s Concert FM), and Odense, Denmark. Recital performances in the U.S. include New York City, Boston, Pittsburgh, and Cleveland. Among numerous prizes, she has won the Passamaneck Award (chosen by Leonard Slatkin), for which she performed at Carnegie Music Hall, and the Nakamichi Violin Competition of the Aspen Festival. Ms. Sung has been on faculty at the Juilliard School as the Starling/Delay Institute Fellow and, in the fall of 2004, was appointed Assistant Professor of Violin at the SUNY-Fredonia School of Music. She is also an artist/faculty member of the Mark O’Connor Strings Conference, the Sewanee Summer Music Festival, and the Hot Springs Music Festival.

Ms. Sung studied with renowned violin pedagogues Josef Gingold and Dorothy DeLay. She graduated with honors from Harvard University, with a double degree in anthropology and music, and from the Juilliard School. She plays on a c.1600 Maggini violin.