Lucille Chung, Piano

Biography

Born in Montréal, pianist Lucille Chung has been acclaimed for
her "stylish and refined performances" by Gramophone magazine, "combining
vigor and suppleness with natural eloquence and elegance" (Le Soir).  She made her debut at the age of ten with the
Montréal Symphony Orchestra, and Charles Dutoit subsequently invited her to be
a featured soloist during the MSO Asian Tour in 1989. Since then, she has
performed an extensive concerto repertoire with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the
Moscow Virtuosi, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, the Flemish Radio
Orchestra, the Orquesta Sinfónica de Tenerife, and the Seoul Philharmonic, as
well as all the major Canadian orchestras. She has appeared with conductors
such as Krzysztof Penderecki, Vladimir Spivakov, Gerd Albrecht, and Charles
Dutoit.

As a recitalist she has
performed at the Wigmore Hall in London, the Kennedy Center in Washington,
D.C., New York's Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam,
the Auditorio Nacional in Madrid, the Great Hall of the Franz Liszt Academy in
Budapest and Toronto's Ford Centre for the Performing Arts. Festival
appearances include the MDR Sommer Festival in Dresden, Lübecker
Kammermusikfest, Santander International Festival in Spain, Montreal
International Festival, Ottawa Chamber Festival, and the Camerino Festival in
Italy.

In 1989, she was the First
Prize winner at the Stravinsky International Piano Competition. She won Second
Prize at the 1992 Montreal International Music Competition, at which she also
won a Special Prize for the best interpretation of the unpublished work. In
1994, she won the Second Prize at the First International Franz Liszt
Competition in Weimar. In 1999, she was awarded the prestigious Virginia Parker
Prize by the Canada Council for the Arts.

She is a graduate of the
Curtis Institute of Music and the Juilliard School, where she worked with
Seymour Lipkin. She also studied at the "Mozarteum" in Salzburg with
Karl-Heinz Kämmerling. Ms. Chung received the Konzertexam Diplom from the
Hochschule für Musik "Franz Liszt" Weimar, where she worked with
Lazar Berman and in 2000, she graduated from the Accademia Pianistica
"Incontri col Maestro" in Imola with the honorary title of
"Master". Ms. Chung recently graduated from the SMU Meadows School of
the Arts under the tutelage of Joaquín Achúcarro. She is also a recipient of
the prestigious Honors Diploma at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena, Italy.

Lucille
Chung has recorded the complete piano works by György Ligeti on the Dynamic
label. The first volume was released in 2001 to great critical acclaim. The
final volume, which contains works for two pianos, was recorded with her
husband, Alessio Bax.  Her all-Scriabin
CD won the "Best Instrumental Recording" prize at the 2003 Prelude Classical
Awards in Holland as well as the coveted R10 Répertoire in France