On Sunday, March 7, 2010, we will be presenting a benefit concert for Promise Child and its relief mission in Haiti. Promise Child (www.promisechild.com) is an organization which "brings hope to children through a saving relationship with Jesus Christ [by] meeting the basic individual needs of each child; such as food, clothing, shelter, and education." 100% of donations for the free concert will go to Promise Child's Haiti Relief fund!

 

Our trio will be performing movements from a couple of works, and we will be joined by several other wonderful musician friends. A presentation will also be made by Promise Child about its work in Haiti.

 

The concert will take place at 4:00pm at St. Andrews Presbyterian Church in Newport Beach. Please feel free to email/call for additional information. If you cannot make it to the concert but would still like to make a donation, please go directly to Promise Child's website (www.promisechild.com), We hope to see you there!

 

Jennie, Ellen, and Julie

909-771-9509

jungtrio@gmail.com

 

 

 

 

The Jung Trio

 

jennie jung piano ellen jung violin julie jung cello

 

Hailed for its soul-stirring, captivating performances of supreme artistry, the Jung Trio, “a spectacular group with wonderful musicality at their fingertips,” (Ezra Laderman, composer and Dean Emeritus of Yale University) has established its status as one of the most notable rising young ensembles of today. The group is comprised of sisters Jennie, Ellen, and Julie Jung, who each contributes her own singular warmth and impassioned sensibility to the collaborative force. The trio has appeared in concerts all across North America as well as around the world.

The sisters were born and raised in Toronto, where they received their early music training as scholarship students in the Young Artist Performance Academy at the Royal Conservatory of Music. Initial successes include top prizes at the Canadian Music Competition, Kiwanis Music Festival, and the CIBC National Music Festival, and were marked by numerous performances throughout Canada in the Music and Sound Festival at the Banff Centre for the Arts, Orford Arts Festival, Debut-Young Concert Artist, Mooredale Concert, Canadian Chamber Music Academy, and CBC’s Music Around Us series. Broadcasts of the group’s performances have included CBC Radio and Television, CJRT Radio, CFMT Television, TV Ontario, KBS Radio, and EBS Radio. The Jung Trio has been featured in Strad, Strings, and Auditorium (Korea) magazines, in the Korea Times, as well as on the South Korean television program, A Classical Odyssey.

The Jung Trio was awarded the Grand Prize at the 2002 Yellow Springs Chamber Music Competition in Yellow Springs, Ohio, and the Bronze Medal at the 2002 Fischoff Competition in South Bend, Indiana. Following a series of successful concerts at the Kumho Art Hall in Seoul, the trio was invited by the Kumho Cultural Foundation in 2003 to give a recital tour of Kenya and Mauritius, where it was the first musical group ever to perform at the United Nations (UNEP) in Nairobi. Additional highlights of past performances include recital tours of South Korea, a performance of the Beethoven Triple Concerto, with the State Symphony Orchestra of Tatarstan in Kazan, Russia, in Los Angeles with the Korean Symphony Orchestra, and with the Taejon Symphony Orchestra in Taejon, South Korea.  The Trio has appeared in recitals in New York, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Detroit, Connecticut, Ohio, and Indiana. In addition, The Jung Trio has appeared at numerous festivals including the Great Lakes, Norfolk, and Orford Chamber Music Festivals, Songfest, and the Banff Centre for the Arts, where they served as Trio-in-Residence in 1998.  The Trio was featured as Young Artists International Debut Artists in 2007 at the 10th International Laureates Festival in Los Angeles and also made their debut at Walt Disney Concert Hall. 

Performances from this season include return engagments at LACMA’s "Sundays Live” Series, Beverly Hills "Music in The Mansion," and the Trinity Lutheran, Manhattan Beach "Previews" concert series, as well as recitals in Temecula, Newport Beach and San Diego.  The trio will make its European debut this summer, performing in Berlin, Germany, and at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria.

Jennie Jung received her Doctor of Musical Arts from the Juilliard School in May, 2008.  Prior to that, she completed studies at Yale University’s School of Music (Master of Music and Artist Diploma) with Claude Frank, and at the University of Toronto with Marietta Orlov.  Ellen Jung received her Master of Music and Artist Diploma from Yale as a student of Syoko Aki and completed studies in the Bachelor of Music program at U of T with Lorand Fenyves and David Zafer. Julie Jung studied with Shauna Rolston at U of T, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Music.  She received her Master of Music from the New England Conservatory of Music as a student of Laurence Lesser, before joining her sisters at Yale, where she completed the Artist Diploma as a student of Aldo Parisot.   The Trio is currently Trio-in-Residence at Vanguard University.