Lucille Chung, Canada/USA

Born in Montréal, Canadian pianist Lucille Chung has been acclaimed for her “stylish and refined” performances by Gramophone. Since her debut at age 10 with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, she has toured with Charles Dutoit in Asia and performed with over 70 leading orchestras around the world including the Philadelphia Orchestra, Moscow Virtuosi, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Israel Chamber Orchestra, Seoul Philharmonic, UNAM Philharmonic (Mexico), St. Louis Symphony, Dallas Symphony as well as all the major Canadian orchestras, including Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver among others. She has appeared with conductors such as Penderecki, Spivakov, Nézet-Séguin, Denève and Petrenko.

Ms. Chung has given solo recitals at the finest concert halls in over 35 countries including New York’s Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, Washington’s Kennedy Center, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Wigmore Hall in London, and Madrid’s Auditorio Nacional. Festival appearances include the Verbier, Dresden, Incontri in Terra di Siena and Santander festivals.

She graduated from both the Curtis Institute and the Juilliard School before she turned 20. She furthered her studies in London with Maria Curcio, at the “Mozarteum” in Salzburg, and in Weimar and Imola, Italy with Lazar Berman.

Chung has received excellent reviews worldwide for her discs of the complete works of Ligeti as well as Scriabin piano works on the Dynamic label, garnering 5 Stars from the BBC Music Magazine and Fono Forum in Germany, as well as R10 Classica-Répertoire in France. Her extensive discography includes Saint-Saëns Piano Transcriptions and “Mozart & Me” for Universal Canada. For Signum Records, she recently released Poulenc Piano Works, Liszt Piano Works as well as a piano duo CD with Alessio Bax.

She is fluent in French, English, Korean, Italian, German and Russian. She and husband, pianist Alessio Bax are co-artistic directors of the Joaquín Achúcarro Foundation and live in New York City with their daughter, Mila.