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Presented with the Butler School of Music

Helen Sung is an acclaimed jazz pianist and composer, 2021 Guggenheim Fellow, and a Steinway Artist.  A native of Texas, she eschewed her classical piano upbringing after a jazz epiphany during undergraduate studies at UT.  Now based in New York City, Sung has worked with such luminaries as the late Clark Terry, Wayne Shorter, Ron Carter, Terri Lyne Carrington, Wynton Marsalis (who named her as one of his "Who's Got Next: Jazz Musicians to Watch!"), Regina Carter, and Cecile McLorin Salvant.  The UT College of Fine Arts awarded Sung its most prestigious honor: the E. William Doty Distinguished Alumna Award. 

This collaborative concert with the UT Jazz Orchestra is presented as part of the 2022 Longhorn Jazz Festival.  The orchestra will perform several of Sung’s arrangements, with her as the featured soloist.

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Jazz Musician Helen Sung Honored as Distinguished Alumna at UT Austin College of Fine Arts from UTCOFA on YouTube.