Helen Sung Trio January 31, 2009

Helen Sung, a classically trained pianist, switched to jazz in 1995 when she was accepted into the inaugural class of the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Performance at the New England Conservatory of Music. An intense performance program accepting only seven students (forming a jazz septet), the Institute proved to be an unprecedented opportunity to study and perform with some of the greatest masters of jazz music. Sung was also a semifinalist in the 1999 Thelonious Monk Jazz Piano Competition. She has performed with such big bands as Diva and the Mingus Big Band and most recently has been performing with Steve Turre, Steve Wilson and legendary trumpeter Clark Terry.