Benjamin Sung

Lecturer
Violin, Viola

E-Mail: bensung0719@gmail.com
Office: 218D Music Education Building
Phone: (812) 327-8376

Degrees:

• D.M., Indiana University
• M.M., Indiana University
• B.M., Eastman School of Music

Concertmaster of the Fargo-Moorhead Symphony Orchestra, Benjamin Sung is also a faculty member at both North Dakota State University and Minnesota State University-Moorhead, and Artistic Director of the Cheryl Nelson Lossett Performing Arts Series at MSUM.

The 2009-10 season will see Sung in concert in Brazil at Festival Virtuosi de Gravata and Festival Inverno de Garanhuns, open the FM Symphony’s season as soloist in the Chaconne from John Corigliano’s Red Violin, appear with the Arsenal Trio in December performances of Beethoven’s Triple Concerto, and collaborate with composition faculty at Seoul National University in workshops and performances of new music. Together with pianist Jihye Chang, he is one of the 2009 recipients of the prestigious Aaron Copland Fund Recording Grant.

Sung has performed as soloist with the Fargo-Moorhead Symphony Orchestra, National Repertory Orchestra, Texas Music Festival Orchestra, the Montgomery Symphony Orchestra, and the Solistas do Virtuosi of Festival Internacionale de Musica in Recife, and has appeared as Guest Concertmaster of the Trondheim Symphony Orchestra in Norway. He is a past winner of the Starling Award competition of the Eastman School of Music and the Violin Fellowship competition of the Montgomery Symphony, and was recipient of the Gladys Gingold Scholarship at Indiana University. Sung has recorded the music of composers Steve Rouse and Marc Satterwhite for Centaur Records.

Sung holds a bachelor’s degree from the Eastman School of Music, where he studied with Oleh Krysa, and master’s and doctorate degrees from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, from the studio of Nelli Shkolnikova. Sung has participated in the Professional Training Program at Carnegie Hall, the Lucerne Festival Academy, the New York String Seminar, and the Chamber Music Residency at The Banff Centre. He has also studied with Fredell Lack, Sonya Monosoff, Yair Kless, and Mitchell Stern. Benjamin lives with his wife Jihye in Fargo, where he enjoys running, playing pool and snooker, and everything that comes out of Jihye’s kitchen.

www.benjaminsung.com

For more information contact Kay Beckermann , (701) 231-9564
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