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Benjamin Sung
Lecturer
Violin, Viola
E-Mail: bensung0719@gmail.com
Office: 218D Music Education Building
Phone: (701) 231-8484
Degrees:
• D.M., Indiana University
• M.M., Indiana University
• B.M., Eastman School of Music
Benjamin Sung, violinist, is Concertmaster of the Fargo-Moorhead Symphony and an active recitalist and chamber musician on stages across the world. In recent months, he has given a live recital of 20th century works taped for broadcast on the PBC television network in Seoul, South Korea; appeared at the Festival Inverno de Garanhuns in Pernambuco, Brazil, with Vivaldi’s Four Seasons and the Carmen Fantasy by Waxman; and performed under Pierre Boulez as a member of the Lucerne Academy at the Lucerne Festival, Switzerland.
Mr. Sung’s current chamber music commitments include his position as the violinist of the Arsenal Trio, which made its debut with a performance of six world premiere compositions for piano trio at the 2006 New Music Festival of the University of Louisville. He is also the Artistic Director of ClefWorks, a music and arts festival in Montgomery, Alabama, which recently completed its first season series.
Mr. Sung has received a Doctor of Music degree from Indiana University, in the studio of Nelli Shkolnikova, where his dissertation examined the concerted works of Béla Bartók. He holds a masters degree from Indiana as well, and his bachelor’s degree from the Eastman School of Music, where he was a student of Oleh Krysa. He is the winner of the Starling Prize from the Eastman School of Music, and the Violin Fellowship of the Montgomery Symphony Orchestra.
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