Helen Sung keeps up the glowing sophistication in her way of playing that withstands any sort of a synthetic approach to music. She puts this skill into use in ...

As musical as his voice is, the decision to include Gioia's spoken-word intros is a bit odd, though. They seem as superfluous as wearing a belt with suspenders.

Duration: 4:20
Posted: Dec 7, 2015

Sep 6, 2018 · The pianist merges jazz and poetry together to make a multi-movement work that explores themes of the human condition.

“It has been a great learning experience dealing with words – building sonic worlds around Dana's poems that express what those words mean to me,” says Sung.

Duration: 1:15
Posted: Sep 11, 2018

Duration: 6:08
Posted: Sep 7, 2018

Sep 12, 2018 · This straight-ahead instrumental is infectiously swinging, sparkled by the bopish idioms of Ellis and Jensen, and having a rhythmically daring ...

Sung With Words is a multi-movement work and pianist/composer Helen Sung's first program of all original compositions using the poems of celebrated poet ...

Jan 24, 2019 · On seven previous discs and in delightful live performances, Helen Sung has earned her thoroughly modern place in the lineage of pianists ...