DePaul Jazz Workshop and DePaul Jazz Ensemble with special guest Helen Sung, pianist

The DePaul Jazz Workshop, directed by Scott Burns and the DePaul Jazz Ensemble, directed by Thomas Matta, combine for this concert featuring special guest, Helen Sung, piano.

About our guest artist:

Pianist and composer Helen Sung hails from Houston, Texas, and is an alumna of its celebrated High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. After a jazz epiphany during undergraduate studies in classical piano at the University of Texas at Austin, she went on to become part of the inaugural class of the Thelonious Monk Institute (now the Herbie Hancock Institute) of Jazz Performance, win the Kennedy Center’s Mary Lou Williams Jazz Piano Competition, and receive prizes including a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Claudette Sorel Award from the National Arts Club.

In addition to leading her own band, Helen has performed with such luminaries as Clark Terry, Wayne Shorter, Ron Carter, Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Regina Carter, Terri Lyne Carrington, Cecile McLorin Salvant, and the Mingus Big Band.

With ten leader albums to her credit, her latest release Oracles (Sunnyside Records, 2026) is a big band project featuring musical portraits of jazz legends who mentored her at the Monk Institute (one of her compositions “Wayne’s World,” won the 2022 BMI Charlie Parker Jazz Composition).

For more information about Ms. Sung, visit her website here.