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Ji Su Jung
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Born in South Korea, Ms. Jung began studying
marimba at age three, a rarity among percussionists.
Since launching her career as a soloist, she has
performed concertos with such leading orchestras
and conductors as the Baltimore Symphony
Orchestra with Marin Alsop, the Sarasota Orchestra
with Giancarlo Guerrero, the Houston Symphony
with Daniel Hege, the Aspen Festival Orchestra
with Michael Stern, the Colorado Music Festival
Orchestra with Peter Oundjian, the Colorado Springs
Philharmonic with JoAnn Falletta, the Grand Rapids
Symphony with Marcelo Lehninger, and the Boise
Philharmonic with Eric Garcia.
Ms. Jung has recorded the Marimba Concerto of Puts, a Pulitzer Prize-winning
composer, with the Baltimore Symphony and Marin Alsop, released on the Naxos
label in early 2023. In the 24-25 Season, Ms. Jung will be touring with the "Boundless
Horizon" recital program, music of Female Composers, and the orchestra tour
within the United States.
Equally at home as a concerto soloist, recitalist, and collaborative artist, Ms. Jung
has performed solo recitals in such venues as the Kennedy Center for the Performing
Arts and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts’ newly renovated David Geffen
Hall. An active chamber musician, she frequently performs with The Percussion
Collective, an all-star collection of young percussionists, of which she has been
a core member since its inception. As part of The Percussion Collective, she has
recorded Garth Neustadter’s Seaborne, anticipated to be released in 2024. As a
collaborative artist, she has also appeared at Yellow Barn and the Norfolk Chamber
Music Festival, where she performed with notable artists such as Gilbert Kalish and
the late Roger Tapping.
The recipient of numerous awards and competition prizes, in 2022, she received the
prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant, becoming the first percussionist to receive
the award. She won both First Prize and the Audience Choice Award at the 2018
Ima Hogg Competition of the Houston Symphony, as well as a top prize at the
2015 International Marimba Competition in Linz, Austria. She has also appeared
as a young artist in residence with American Public Media’s highly popular radio
program Performance Today, hosted by Fred Child.
Recognized internationally as a pedagogue, Ms. Jung serves on the faculties of
the Curtis Institute of Music and the Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins
University. Ms. Jung holds a bachelor’s degree from the Peabody Institute of The
Johns Hopkins University, where she attended thanks to a generous grant from The
Brookby Foundation. She also holds a master’s degree and an artist diploma from
the Yale School of Music, where she studied with Robert van Sice.
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