JUNG TRIO
Jennie Ellen Julie
Ellen Jung violin
Violinist Ellen Jung has performed frequently as a soloist, chamber, and orchestral musician all over the world. She has been featured with the Korean Philharmonic, Taejon Symphony, Republic of Tatarstan Symphony, North York Symphony Orchestra, the Korean-Canadian Symphony Orchestra, and both the University of Toronto Symphony and Chamber Orchestras. An active chamber musician, Ms. Jung is a member of the award-winning Jung Trio with her two sisters, Jennie and Julie. Together, they have performed throughout North America, Russia, South Korea, Kenya and Mauritius. She has also collaborated with artists such as Shauna Rolston, Erika Raum, Steven Dann, Jacques Israelievitch, Jesse Levine and Syoko Aki. She has received chamber music coachings from the St. Lawrence String Quartet, Bernadene Blaha, Lorand Fenyves, Claude Frank, Peter Frankl, members of the Tokyo String Quartet, and Paul Katz.
A frequent performer of new music, Ms. Jung performed the world premiere of the Trio for Horn, Piano, and Violin by Norwegian composer Trygve Madsen, while featured as an artist at the International Horn Summit in Banff. While in residence at the Banff Centre, she collaborated with Gary Kulesha, and Krystof Penderecki, which culminated in the performance of many new works. Ms. Jung performed the premiere of “A” for solo violin by the Canadian composer Lusiana Lukman, written for her in 1998.
Ms. Jung has attended masterclass programs at the Meadowmount School of Music, the Banff Centre for the Arts, and the Norfolk, Orford, and Great Lakes Chamber Music Festivals. She has also participated in masterclasses with such artists as Jose Luis-Garcia, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, Cho-Liang Lin, Mayumi Seiler, Scott St. John and Jaime Laredo. She has been awarded numerous scholarships including the Aline Hector Perrier Scholarship offered by the Fonds Les Amis de l’Art, and is a recipient of an Ontario Arts Council Chalmers Performing Arts Training Grant. She completed her Bachelor of Music in Performance at the University of Toronto with David Zafer, and Lorand Fenyves. In 1999, Ms. Jung began graduate studies at Yale University School of Music studying with Syoko Aki, and received a Master of Music degree in 2001 and an Artist Diploma in 2002.
Ms. Jung is currently on faculty at the Claremont School of Music, and is an adjunct professor at the Vanguard University.
Jennie Jung piano
Jennie Jung made her debut with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra at the age of eleven and has since been active as both a soloist and collaborator in North America. Ms. Jung has performed with the Republic of Tatarstan Symphony, Korean Philharmonic, Taejon Symphony, Korean-Canadian, University of Toronto, Hart House, and Cathedral Bluffs Symphony Orchestras. She has attended festivals including the Taubman Institute of Piano and the Banff Centre for the Arts, where she was an assistant coach in the 20th Century Opera and Song Workshop as well as collaborative pianist in the Music and Sound Program. In 2004, she was the recipient of the Sheen Fellowship in Collaborative Piano at the Music Academy of the West, Santa Barbara. As a collaborative pianist, Ms. Jung has performed in North America, Asia, and Europe, and has been on staff at the Aspen Summer Music Festival, Gregor Piatigorsky Seminar for Cellists, and the Banff Centre for the Arts, Ms. Jung has participated in masterclasses and studied with artists such as Dalton Baldwin, Anne Epperson, Peter Frankl, Margo Garrett, Martin Katz, Anton Kuerti, Robert MacDonald, Karl Ulrich-Schnabel, and Arie Vardi.
Ms. Jung is a member of the Jung Trio with her sisters Ellen (violin) and Julie (cello). The Jung Trio was the Grand Prize winner at the 2002 Yellow Springs Chamber Music Competition and was awarded the Bronze Medal at the 2002 Fischoff Chamber Music Competition. The Trio has attended numerous festivals and workshops, including the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, and the Orford Arts Centre Festival, and in 1998 the Jung Trio was invited to be Trio-in-Residence at the Banff Centre for the Arts. Past performances include recitals in Korea, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, and Toronto, and a concert tour of Kenya and Mauritius as representatives of the Kumho Cultural Foundation. The Jung Trio has performed Beethoven's Triple Concerto with orchestras in Russia, Korea, Toronto, and Los Angeles. Their recording of Dvorak’s Piano Trio in F Minor was recently released by the Groovenote Label on LP and will be released on CD in July, 2009. This summer, the Trio will make its European debut in Berlin, Germany, and at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria.
Ms. Jung completed her Bachelor of Music degree at the University of Toronto with Marietta Orlov. She received her Master of Music degree and Artist Diploma from Yale University while studying with Claude Frank and was a C. V. Starr Fellow in the doctoral program at the Juilliard School. Ms. Jung graduated with a Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) degree from Juilliard in May, 2008. She is currently an adjunct professor at Vanguard University (Costa Mesa, CA), as well as collaborative pianist for the Colburn Conservatory in Los Angeles. In the summer of 2009, Ms. Jung will be a collaborative pianist at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria.
Julie Jung cello
Cellist Julie Jung has performed throughout the world, both as a soloist and as a member of the award-winning Jung Trio with her two sisters Jennie and Ellen. A prizewinner in the 2000 Eckhardt-Gramattee Competition, she has been presented in recitals by the Debut-Young Concert Artist Series in Montreal and the Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC Radio) across Canada and has also performed as soloist with the Toronto Symphony, Canadian Chamber Academy, State Symphony of Tatarstan, Korean Philharmonic, Taejon Philharmonic, University of Toronto Symphony, Korean-Canadian Symphony and East York Symphony Orchestras. She has participated in festivals including the Banff Centre for the Arts, the Norfolk and Great Lakes Chamber Music Festivals, the Manchester Cello Festival, New York String Seminar and the Verbier Academy in Switzerland.
An avid chamber musician, Ms. Jung has collaborated in performance with many artists, including the St. Lawrence String Quartet, James Dunham, Edgar Meyer, Shauna Rolston, Bernadene Blaha, and James Somerville. As a member of the NEC Honors String Quartet, she was awarded the Silver Medal at the Fischoff Chamber Music Competition in 2000 and toured Germany with the NEC Chamber Orchestra. Ms.Jung has performed with iPalpiti in the International Laureates Festival in Los Angeles since 2007 and appeared with the ensemble in Carnegie Hall, Disney Hall and the Kimmel Center. With the Jung Trio, she most recently performed in Russia, Los Angeles, Toronto, New York City, Seoul, and toured Kenya and Mauritius. The trio completed studies in the Artist Diploma program at Yale and also attended the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival/Yale Summer School of Music where they collaborated with violist Jesse Levine and studied with artists such as Claude Frank, Peter Frankl, Tokyo String Quartet, John O’Conor and Syoko Aki. They recently recorded their first album on the Groovenote Label that will be released in July 2009 and are currently Trio-in-Residence at Vanguard University in Costa Mesa, CA
Ms. Jung received her Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Toronto where she studied with Shauna Rolston. She received her Master of Music degree with Academic Honors and Distinction in Performance from the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, where she studied with Laurence Lesser and most recently completed studies at the Yale School of Music with Aldo Parisot in the Artist Diploma Program. Ms. Jung currently resides in Los Angeles, and is on faculty at Vanguard University.
