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“Chung’s shaping of melody through dynamics, color, and rhythmic freedom...was always sensitive and sometimes even sublime.” —— Boston Globe (Richard Dyer)
A Native of Taiwan, pianist Grace Chung began her studies in the United States after winning Taiwan's National Piano Competition at age 14. She made her debut as a soloist with the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra in Jordon Hall at age 16.
Winner of the Juilliard Piano Concerto Competition, Ms. Chung’s major awards include the First Prize of the Seventh International Chopin Piano Competition in Taiwan and the First Prize of the Yamaha Young Artist Competition.
Winner of the Juilliard Piano Concerto Competition, Ms. Chung’s major awards include the First Prize of the Seventh International Chopin Piano Competition in Taiwan and the First Prize of the Yamaha Young Artist Competition.
Ms. Chung has collaborated with many renowned musicians and performed both as a soloist and chamber musician in Jordan Hall and the Gardner Museum in Boston, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall and Merkin Hall in New York City, among other places in the US, Canada, Italy, Japan, China, and Malaysia.
Ms. Chung graduated from the Curtis Institute of Music (BM), The Juilliard School (MM), and Rutgers University (DMA). Her major teachers include Wha Kyung Byun, Seymour Lipkin, Jerome Lowenthal, and Susan Starr. Ms. Chung is currently full time Professor of Piano at the Tainan National University of the Arts in Taiwan.