LUCILLE CHUNG
PIANO
“Lucille Chung’s brilliant, crystalline performances are certainly very impressive indeed.”
- BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE
REVIEWS
"Chung is able to evoke the mercurial mood changes so characteristic of Poulenc with grace, consistently beautiful sound and an unerring sense of proportion."
- GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE
“Chung exudes grace and poise at the keyboard, directing all of her energy toward making the music speak clearly.”
- TORONTO STAR
“Lucille Chung’s brilliant, crystalline performances are certainly very impressive indeed.”
- BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE
“Lucille Chung’s stylish and refined performance…with imperturbable clarity and insight.”
- GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE
“Combining vigor and suppleness with natural eloquence and elegance.”
- LE SOIR, Belgium
“…riveting, illuminating, fiery, transcendental pianism…”
- NEW YORK CONCERT REVIEW
"Chung's concert is one to remember - This petite pianist plays with a power twice her size. Twenty years from now, it won’t be her that you remember, but her performance.”
- BUDAPEST WEEK MAGAZINE
“…Chung’s blazing gutsy performance was exciting and rewarding…”
- THE WASHINGTON POST
“…a bravura display of extroversion and sensitivity.”
- SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
“Ms. Chung, a first-rate pianist by any standard and a name to watch.”
- AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE
“Elle allie la science à la spontanéité, avec une technique invisible. C’est tour l’art du naturel.
- RÉPERTOIRE, France
BIOGRAPHY
Canadian pianist Lucille Chung is renowned for her “blazing gutsy performance[s]” (The Washington Post). Born in Montréal, Canadian pianist Lucille Chung has been acclaimed for her “stylish and refined performances” by Gramophone magazine, “combining vigor and suppleness with natural eloquence and elegance” (Le Soir). Ms. Chung has been making her mark from an early age. At age ten, she had made her debut performance with the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal and a few years later, she claimed first place in the Stravinsky International Piano Competition.
Since her early success, Ms. Chung has since performed with over 60 leading orchestras around the world including the Philadelphia Orchestra, Moscow Virtuosi, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, KBS Orchestra, Israel Chamber Orchestra, Seoul Philharmonic, Staatskapelle Weimar, UNAM Philharmonic (Mexico), Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana, Flemish Radio Orchestra as well as all of the major Canadian orchestras. She has appeared with prestigious conductors including, Krzysztof Penderecki, Vladimir Spivakov, Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, and Charles Dutoit, to name a few.
As recitalist, Ms. Chung has performed in over 30 countries. She is often invited to chamber festivals and recent appearances include the Seoul Arts Centre Orchestra Festival in Korea, Mainly Mozart Festival in San Diego, and the Aruba Piano Festival. She regularly performs with her husband as a member of the Bax & Chung Piano Duo.
Ms. Chung has a discography of eleven titles featuring solo, concerto, and piano duo recordings. In 2016, her 11th CD, Poulenc CD, on the Signum Classics, features solo and duo works. Her most recent release, a solo disc titled, Liszt: Piano Works, was also on the Signum label and received high acclaim.
Ms. Chung graduated from both the Curtis Institute and The Juilliard School before the age of 20. She then furthered her studies in Europe at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Hochschule für Musik (Franz Liszt) Weimar and Accademia Pianistica in Imola, Italy, where she worked with the late Lazar Berman. The recipient of many prestigious awards, she was recently named Honorary Professor of the Jilin Arts College in China and is on the faculty of the Meadows School of the Arts in Dallas. She and husband, pianist Alessio Bax are artistic co-directors of the Dallas-based Joaquín Achúcarro Foundation.
Lucille Chung is a Steinway Artist.
January 2023
PREFERRED CONCERTO LIST
2020–23
John Adams
Grand Pianola Music
Bach
Concerto BWV 1056
Bartók
Rhapsody Op. 1
Beethoven
Concerto No. 2, 3, 4, 5
Brahms
Concerto No. 1
Unsuk Chin
Piano Concerto
Chopin
Andante Spianato
Concerto No. 1
Grande Polonaise Brillante Op.22
Franck
Les Djinns- Poème symphonique
Gershwin
Concerto in F
Rhapsody in Blue
Grieg
Concerto
Ligeti
Concerto for Piano
Liszt
Concerto No. 1
Henry Charles Litolff
Concerto symphonique Op.102 "Scherzo"
Mendelssohn
Concerto No. 1 & No. 2
Mozart
Concerto K. 242, K. 271, K. 414, K. 459, K. 466,
K. 488,
Concerto K. 365 for Two Pianos
Piazzolla
The Four Seasons
Poulenc
Concerto for Two Pianos
Prokofiev
Concerto No. 1 & No. 3
Rachmaninov
Concerto No. 1 & No. 2
Ravel
Concerto in G Major
Saint-Saëns
Concerto No. 2
"Africa"
"Wedding Cake"
Carnival of the Animals
Schumann
Concerto in A Minor
Scriabin
Prometheus: Poem of Fire
Shostakovich
Concerto No. 1
Stravinsky
Concerto for Piano and Winds
Tchaikovsky
Concerto No. 1
Recital repertoire available upon request
Master classes and workshops available
Other concerti available upon request
DISCOGRAPHY
Liszt: Piano Music
Signum Classics CD533
Poulenc: Works for Piano Solo and Duo
Signum CD455
Mozart & Me, Piano works
XX1 CD 2-1732
Camille Saint-Saëns Piano Transcriptions
XX1 CD 2-1682
The Fazioli Concert Hall Series
Fazioli Series
Scriabin Piano Works
Dynamic CDS 416
LIGETI - Works for piano, two pianos and piano four hands
Dynamic CDS 434
György Ligeti: Piano Works
Dynamic CDS 358
Camille Saint-Saëns’ Carnival of the Animals
FWSO Label
Felix Mendelssohn
CD RIC 29989
Lucille Chung: Début Recording
Palexa Label
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