CHUNG, MIA - piano

L. van Beethoven Sonatas & Bagatelles (vol. 1)

Six Bagatelles, op.126;
Sonata no.16 in G major, op.31;
Sonata no.32 in C minor, op.111

Educated at Harvard, Yale and Juilliard, Mia Chung won First Prize at the Concert Artists Guild New York International Competition in 1993. She was the first pianist to earn this distinction in five years. Ms. Chung also won the Competition’s special U.S. Trust Artist Award as well as the ITT Corporation Prize. Other awards include first prizes in the J. S. Bach International Piano Competition (Preparatory division) in 1981, and the Third Missouri Southern International Competition in 1990. Ms. Chung has been receiving the highest praise for her interpretations of Beethoven’s Sonatas. Of her performance of Beethoven at her New York recital debut the New York Times wrote, “Uncommonly insightful, individualistic and lively ..... She found balances and rhythmic emphases that made the work’s drama seen fresh ..... her playing was dazzling.” She made her orchestral debut at the age of twelve as soloist with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, and her highly praised recital debut at the age of eighteen at the Hall of the Americas in Washington, D.C.. In addition to a re-engagement with the Baltimore Symphony, she has been soloist with the National Symphony Orchestra and the New Haven Symphony Orchestra, and has appeared in frequent recitals in Washington, Boston and New Haven. Chosen as an Artistic Ambassador by the U. S. Information Agency in 1993, Ms. Chung toured throughout Southeast Asia and the former Soviet Union. Capping off the 1994 season was Ms. Chung’s New York recital debut, presented by Concert Artists Guild at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall. Festival appearances include the Flagstaff Festival in Arizona, the Rockport Chamber Music Festival in Massachusetts and de C.A.G.’s San Juan Islands Chamber Music Festival. The 1994 season Ms. Chung made her Chicago debut at Pick-Staiger Hall. She has also been re-engaged by the Gardner Museum in Boston, and will be heard in recital at the Toledo Museum of Art, Jacksonville University, the Flagler Museum in Palm Beach and on tour throughout the Northeast and South. She will also perform as guest artist with the Miami String Quartet at the New School in New York City this season. In 1996 Mia Chung will premiere a new work by Lee Hyla, commissioned by C. A. G. for Ms. Chung. Mia Chung was born in Madison (Wisconsin) in 1964, and grew up in the Washington, D.C. area. She holds a bachelor degree from Harvard College, a master’s degree from Yale University and a doctorate from the Juilliard School. Her teachers have included Peter Serkin, Boris Berman, Raymond and Anne Hanson, and George Manos. Ms. Chung is currently Artist-in-Residence at Gordon College in Wenham (Mass.). She lives in Cambridge, where she is a resident tutor at Harvard College.

Awards: critics choice Gramophone