Ryan Jung is a pianist/composer currently based between New York City and Basel. He is especially dedicated to contemporary music performance and research, such as the collaboration between performers and composers. As such, he has worked extensively with contemporary artists such as Tyshawn Sorey, Thomas Ades, TAK Ensemble, Enno Poppe, Jorg Widmann, Jeremy Denk, Nico Muhly, Betsy Jolas, and Wolfgang Rihm.
He made his Lincoln Center debut in Alice Tully Hall in 2021 and has since performed with the New York Philharmonic, and performed extensively across North America and Europe. Among the venues he has performed include: The Lucerne Festival (CH), the Avaloch Farm Institute (NH), Lunenburg Academy of Music in Nova Scotia, Music For Food (Boston), Schiermoonikoog Festival (NL), IMS Prussia Cove (UK), the Yellow Barn Festival, Music Academy of the West, and the Aspen Music Festival. Jung was also recently a candidate of the 2025 ARD Musikbettwerbe in Munich and Beethoven Telekom Competition in Bonn, and was also a semi-finalist in the 2024 Orleans Competition, and 3rd Prize winner of the 2022 Wadsworth International Piano Competition.
Mr. Jung completed his MM at the Juilliard School with Jerome Lowenthal and Hung-Kuan Chen, and received his BM from the New England Conservatory with Haesun Paik and studied jazz with Henrique Eisenmann. He is currently a DMA Candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center and pursuing his second Masters in Performance at the Basel Musik-akademie with Claudio Martinez-Mehner. Jung also holds a staff-pianist position at Juilliard.
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