Spelman Duo Faculty Recital

• Amadi Azikiwe, violin
• Hyunjung Rachel Chung, piano

Duo Recital featuring Amadi Azikiwe, music director of the Harlem Symphony Orchestra, violist and violinist and Spelman College music department chair Hyunjung Rachel Chung, piano.

About Spelman College Department of Music

Spelman offers courses of study in vocal performance, piano performance, instrumental performance (brass, woodwinds, percussion and strings), composition, choral conducting and music and education.

Its graduates have distinguished themselves in classrooms, communities, fine arts organizations, and on stages throughout the world.

About Amadi Azikiwe, violin

https://steinhardt.nyu.edu/people/amadi-azikiwe

About Hyunjung Rachel Chung, piano

Celebrated for being the 2020 winner of the American Prize, Korean-American pianist Hyunjung Rachel Chung has paved a multifaceted path as a performer, educator, adjudicator, recording artist and avocational composer. She made her New York solo recital debut at Carnegie Hall Weill Recital Hall in 1996 as a winner of the Artist International Audition.

Dedicated to the music of our time as well as the neglected and forgotten music, she has performed and recorded various piano solo works by women composers in her two award-winning albums in the Studio Jeeb label: "My Cherished Garden: Piano Works by American Women Composers" (2017) and "Three Piano Sonatas by Women Composers" (2018). The American Prize recognized her continuing achievement by naming her the top prize winner of the Ernest Beacon Memorial Award. She has enjoyed collaborations with many instrumentalists and singers. Particularly, she had performed as a member of Eureka Duo from 2014 to 2019 to present chamber music written by women composers. Also, she has frequently shared a stage with her husband and a tenor, Dr. Sungbae Kim.

A devoted educator, Dr. Chung is an associate professor and chair of the department of music at Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia, where she has been teaching since 2006. Steinway & Sons acknowledged her outstanding endeavors with the 2020 Top Music Teacher Award. Chung earned a bachelor of arts degree in music from Seoul National University, a master of music degree and a professional study diploma from the Mannes College of Music, and a doctor of musical arts degree in piano performance from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University.