Mia Chung

Pianist Mia Chung was the first-prize winner of the 1993 Concert Artists Guild Competition and a recipient of the 1997 Avery Fisher Career Grant. She has appeared with the Alabama, Baltimore, Harrisburg, National, and New Haven symphonies; the Boston Pops; and the Seoul Philharmonic, among others. An active recitalist, she has performed in major concert halls including the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Boston’s Symphony Hall and Jordan Hall, Seoul’s Sejong Art Center, and Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center. A 1993 Artistic Ambassador for the United States Information Agency, she toured Southeast Asia and the former Soviet Union. She was also a member of the Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society II. Her CD and DVD recordings of works by Bach, Beethoven, Schumann, and Lee Hyla have earned high praise and awards.

Dr. Chung graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College. She received 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. She joined the faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music in 2012. With Arnold Steinhardt she teaches the Curtis-Coursera course The World of the String Quartet.