Violinist Khullip Jeung is known and sought after as a versatile soloist, chamber musician, and violin pedagogist. He started playing the violin at the age of five in South Korea and soon after immigrated to Hawaii. He made his solo debut with the Honolulu Symphony at the age of nine, playing the Khachaturian Concerto and, soon after, Lalo’s Symphonie Espagnole to great acclaim. At the age of 15, Jeung moved to New York having been accepted to the Juilliard Pre-College to study with Dorothy DeLay on scholarship. He received his Bachelor and Master of Music degrees at Juilliard studying with Sally Thomas with the C V Starr Scholarship, Teplitsky Memorial Scholarship, and the Irene Diamond Graduate Fellowship to name a few.
Jeung is on the faculty of the Juilliard School Pre-College, Mannes College of Music, and at CUNY. He has also been a visiting artist professor at UMass Amherst, and music director of the Good Neighbor Ensemble based in New Jersey. He is now the music director of Love Violin USA, a voluntary, non-profit organization dedicated to making a positive difference in the lives of underprivileged children around the world. Jeung is concertmaster of the Classical Notes Philharmonic and a founding member of the BeneSori Quartet, and President of the BeneSori Music Foundation which he created in 2013. The same year, he founded the 4Strings Music Festival in New York in which he is also its director.
September 26 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
The Ahn Trio with James Moore: The Art of Collaboration: Sting, Jobim and Baechle