A visionary concert pianist and interdisciplinary artist, Suejin Jung enjoys a distinctive international career. Her passion for immersing in projects that reveal profound truths about human nature, and our ability to imagine and interpret has led her to create numerous multimedia projects that unite sound, visuals, and media. Suejin is the winner of 2020 Goodmesh Concours in The Netherlands. “Breathmark”, illustrated themes of climate crisis and social injustice and won the First Prize, which included the album recording with TRPTK. Through collaborations across different artistic fields supported by grants including the New York Foundation for the Arts, Suejin has been able to imbue new life to classical repertoires.
As a multi-faceted performer, she has been invited to perform as a collaborative pianist at festivals such as Music Academy International (Mezzano, Italy), Ecoles d’Art Américaines de Fontainebleau (France), Music in the Vineyard (Norway) and New York International Piano Competition. She serves as an official piano collaborator at the California State University of Fullerton. She has been a featured soloist with Ensemble Calliopée (France), Ruse Philharmonic Orchestra (Bulgaria), Rutgers Symphony Orchestra, The Discovery Orchestra, Virtuosi Brunesis Orchestra (Italy), and her performances have been broadcasted and live-streamed on PBS and The Strad.
Suejin received bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the Juilliard School, where she was a student of Julian Martin, Matti Raekallio, and Joseph Kalichstein as a recipient of Kamiya Sisters, Paul Jacobs Memorial, and G.G. Ulmer Memorial Scholarships. She was an artist-in-residence at Fondation des Etats-Unis in Paris, France as a recipient of the 2019-2020 Harriet Hale Woolley Scholarship. She pursued Stage de Perfectionnement at the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris working closely with Anne Queffélec during this time. She is currently a Doctoral candidate at the Rutgers University Mason Gross School of the Arts.
As an educator, Suejin has served as a faculty member at Drew University, Rutgers University Extension Division, New York Music School, and PS 11 in Manhattan as an Education Outreach Fellow through the Juilliard School. Suejin is a Steinway Education Partner and is currently based in Orange County, California.