Date:
Monday, November 2
Time:
7:00 PM
Advance Ticket:
$46.62
Advance Member Ticket:
$42.00
Door Ticket:
$52.50
Student Ticket:
$26.25
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Kuumbwa Jazz Presents

Helen Sung Quartet

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6:00 PM
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“Sung plays with crisp swing and elegant invention, her rhythms drawing from the music’s deepest blues roots – and setting listeners’ heads bobbing – while she explores her own fresh ideas, often inspired from her classical training.” – The New York Times

Pianist and composer Helen Sung hails from Houston, Texas, and is an alumna of its celebrated High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. After a jazz epiphany while studying classical piano at the University of Texas at Austin, she went on to become part of the inaugural class of the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Performance, win the Kennedy Center’s Mary Lou Williams Jazz Piano Competition, receive a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Claudette Sorel Award from the National Arts Club. Now based in New York City, she is visiting faculty at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and an Associate Professor at Columbia University.

With ten bandleader albums to her credit, her latest release Oracles is a big band project featuring musical portraits of jazz legends who mentored her at the Monk Institute. 

Helen Sung Website
(Ticket Includes 5% City of Santa Cruz Admission Tax)
This concert is supported in-part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts via the Western Jazz Presenters Network.
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