Mia Chung is a concert pianist, educator, writer, and spokesperson for music. Over the past several decades she has performed and spoken extensively on stage, on air, and online to engage listeners from around the world. Her hope is to draw people’s imaginations to music’s transformative power and to bring it back to the center of public life.
" Described as “uncommonly insightful, individualistic, lively” and “technically dazzling” by the
New York Times, Ms. Chung has enjoyed great success as a recitalist, concerto soloist and
chamber musician. She won first prize in the Concert Artists Guild Competition and received the
Avery Fisher Career Grant, the highest recognition for young concert artists in the United States..."
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" A distinguished educator and music advocate, Ms. Chung has worked extensively to provide
greater understanding and increased awareness of the classical music repertoire. She has given
lecture-recitals across the United States onstage, on-air, and online and given masterclasses and
presentations at New England Conservatory, Juilliard, Eastman, University of Michigan (Ann
Arbor), Cornell, MIT, Williams College, Georgia Tech, Boston University, Indiana University
Piano Academy and many other private and public institutions of higher learning. Her DVD
recording entitled, Notations: A Composer’s Response to Crisis, has garnered high praise. The
sole writer, teacher, performer and producer of this recording, Ms. Chung provides illuminating
performances and analyses of Beethoven’s seminal works-- Piano Sonatas, Op. 53 and Op. 110
(distributed by Films for the Humanities & Sciences). As a radio personality, Ms. Chung served
as the first "Young Artist in Residence'' for National Public Radio's Performance Today. Ms.
Chung's work at NPR earned her a nomination as "Debut Artist of the Year." She went on to
serve as "Artist-in-Radio'' at WCRB-FM in Boston and WGMS-FM in Washington, D.C. and has
appeared on public radio programs throughout the United States..."
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" An ardent advocate for interdisciplinary learning and the liberal arts, Ms. Chung has presented
talks on beauty and suffering, music and mathematics, and success or significance at numerous
colleges, universities, and conservatories. She has also participated and presented at colloquia on
medicine, ethics, and the arts; aesthetic cognitivism; and theology and the arts. On the
institutional level, Ms. Chung has worked to facilitate faculty collaboration and curriculum
integration as a trustee at the Curtis Institute of Music and as Chair of the Task Force on Curtis’s
21st-Century Education. From 2018-2022, Mia led the Faculty Council, a committee made up of
faculty across performance and academic departments that oversees curriculum and educational
matters..."
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