Dr. Jung Sun Kang
Piano Faculty, Composition
Dr. Jung Sun Kang is a composer, harpsichordist, pianist and an educator. An avid performer of early and new music, Jung Sun has given concerts in US, Canada, Europe and Asia. Her music has been commissioned by Fromm New Music Players, Brave New Works, Shakespeare and Company, and Trio Aporia, among others. She has received awards from the British Harpsichord Society and Warren Benson Forum on Creativity, as well as a Leonard Bernstein Fellowship from Tanglewood Music Center.
Dr. Jung Sun received a Bachelor of Music degree (summa cum laude) from Ewha University in her native country South Korea and a doctorate from the Eastman School of Music, where she taught and also served as a pianist of the Eastman Musica Nova Ensemble and OSSIA New Music. She also holds an Artist Diploma degree from McGill University, where she received Schulich Scholarship.
“I love music partly because of its illusive mystery- I believe the best part of composition, theory and performance cannot be explained. Although this can be true in many ways, as an educator, I strive to help my students think clearly and practically in response to creative problems. Verbally expressing the problem, building the techniques and skills to solve it, and studying various genres of music, my students make progress and I learn a lot from their journey.”