Winner of the Kennedy Center’s Mary Lou Williams Piano Competition, Helen Sung

Winner of the Kennedy Center’s Mary Lou Williams Piano Competition, Helen Sung has been called “one of the brightest emerging stars in jazz today.” Breaking stereotypes as an Asian-American artist and composer, her experience in classical, jazz, & popular music gives her a compelling, unique voice.

Of Chinese heritage and a native of Houston, Texas, Helen attended Houston’s High School for the Performing and Visual Arts (HSPVA). She initially aspired to be a classical pianist but was bitten by the jazz bug while pursuing undergraduate studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She switched to jazz after being accepted into the inaugural class of the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Performance (at the New England Conservatory of Music). An intensive program accepting only seven students (forming a jazz septet), the Institute proved to be an unprecedented opportunity to study & perform with some of the greatest masters of jazz music.

You can see her on Thursday, 10/15 @ 7:30 pm & 9:30 pm
@ JAZZ STANDARD (116 East 27th Street)
www.jazzstandard.com
music charge: $20