Dr. Hyunjee Chung

Excelling as a soloist, chamber and orchestral musician, violinist Hyunjee Chung is sought-after for her compelling and intelligent interpretations of a diverse repertoire from classical to contemporary. Chung made her solo debut with the Seoul National Symphony in 2010 performing the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto. Her recent solo engagements include a performance of the Beethoven Violin Concerto collaborating with Maestro Bramwell Tovey, and a performance of the Brahms Violin Concerto with the Narragansett Bay Symphony Orchestra. Chung has concertized widely, appearing on stages including Boston Symphony Hall, Jordan Hall, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum’s Calderwood Hall, Adrienne Arsht Center, Mechanics Hall, Snape Maltings Concert Hall, The Woodruff Arts Center, Gaillard Center, Baird Auditorium in Smithsonian, Seoul Arts Center, Hong Kong City Hall, National Grand Theater of Beijing, and Dubai Opera.

A devoted chamber musician, Chung’s recent chamber music collaborators include Bayla Keyes, Michelle LaCourse, Ronda Rider, Lila Brown, Diane Walsh, Ettore Causa, and members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Parker Quartet. Also in demand as an orchestral player, Chung has been a member of the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra led by Gábor Takács-Nagy since 2017. Her recent performances with the VFCO include residencies at Schloss Elmau, Germany, Tsinandali Festival, Georgian Republic, as well as a concert tour of Hong Kong, China, and Dubai. During these tours she collaborated closely with musicians from Wiener Philharmoniker, Berliner Philharmoniker, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich. In the summer of 2022, Chung participated in VFCO’s recording of the Beethoven Symphony cycle for Deutsche Grammophon in Switzerland. She has performed with a number of renowned conductors including Ivan Fischer, Zubin Mehta, Robert Spano, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Manfred Honeck, Semyon Bychkov, Gianandrea Noseda, Antonio Pappano, Daniel Harding, and Michael Tilson Thomas. In addition, she played concerts with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, the New World Symphony, Callithumpian Consort, Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Charleston Symphony Orchestra.

Chung has been invited to numerous festivals including Verbier Festival, Aldeburgh Festival, International Musicians Seminar at Prussia Cove, Festival Napa Valley, Atlantic Music Festival, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, and Taos School of Music, working closely with Robert McDonald, Peter Frankl, and members of the Brentano, Borromeo, Shanghai, Tokyo, and the Emerson String Quartets.

Chung has a deep interest in exploring and sharing the ‘hidden gems’ of the violin and chamber repertoire; in particular the marginalized late works by Robert Schumann. She recently presented talks and lectureperformances on her research on R. Schumann’s Phantasie for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 131, and hopes to help students, fellow musicians, and the broader community become acquainted with these works.

Chung currently holds an Assistant Professor position as Ensemble Director and serves on the Violin faculty at the New World School of the Arts at Miami Dade College. In 2022, she joined the faculty at Saarburg International Festival in Germany where she taught violin and chamber music. Prior to her appointment at the NWSA, she taught as a Violin Instructor and Chamber Music Coach at the Boston University College of Fine Arts, and at the Boston String Academy - training built on the El Sistema model. Born and raised in Seoul, Chung earned her Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Boston University under Professor Bayla Keyes. She previously studied at the New England Conservatory with violinist Soovin Kim, and holds a Master of Music degree from Peabody Conservatory, as well as a Bachelor of Music degree from Seoul National University where she studied with violinist Ju-Young Baek.

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