JUDY HUNG BIO

Short bio:

Taiwanese-Canadian musician Judy Hung enjoys a versatile career as artistic director, violinist, pianist, violoncellist da spalla, and teacher. 

Passionate in Historically Informed Performance, her solo baroque violin and solo harpsichord album "Essence Baroque" was released in 2022; her solo historical piano album “Essence Romantique” will be released in 2023. 

Judy serves as collaborative pianist at McGill University's Schulich School of Music. Founder and artistic director of L’Orchestre symphonique des jeunes de Vaudreuil-Soulanges, Judy is the music director and organist at Valois United Church.

Judy is grateful to Canada Council for the Arts, Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (CALQ), and Conseil des arts et de la culture de Vaudreuil-Soulanges (CACVS) for supporting her recording, research, and concert touring projects.

Judy Hung holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Violin Performance with an Orchestral Conducting minor from Louisiana State University, and has completed Master’s degrees in Violin, Piano and Early Music Performance respectively from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Syracuse University and McGill University. 

Long bio:

Taiwanese-Canadian musician Judy Hung enjoys a versatile career as artistic director, violinist, pianist, violoncellist da spalla, and teacher. 

Her recent performances include performing Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto with Dadaocheng Orchestra in Taipei, Taiwan; performing Mozart Piano Concerto K. 595 on 18th century Stein fortepiano with La Petite Bande Summer Academy Orchestra in Italy, as well as solo and chamber music recitals at Music-at-Hill Bach Festival (UK), Teatro Olimpico Vicenza (Italy), l’Église de Rougemont (Switzerland), Catedral de Cuenca (Spain), l’Église St. Julien du Sault (France), National Concert Hall (Taiwan), and Pollack Hall (Canada), among others.

Passionate in Historically Informed Performance, Judy enjoys performing period instruments including baroque violin, violoncello da spalla, portative organ, harpsichord, clavichord, fortepiano, and 19th century historical pianos.

Her solo baroque violin and solo harpsichord album "Essence Baroque" was released in 2022; her solo historical piano album “Essence Romantique” will be released in 2023. 

Judy serves as collaborative pianist at McGill University's Schulich School of Music. She is the music director and organist at Valois United Church. Judy held a teaching position at McGill Conservatory of Music from 2010 to 2022. 

As a conductor, Judy has conducted Opera de Baugé Orchestra (France), Aberystwyth Musicfest Orchestra (Wales, UK), LSU Philharmonic & Symphony Orchestras, Sewanee Repertory Orchestra (USA), Tainan University Symphony Orchestra, National Sun Yat-sen University Chamber Orchestra, and Kaohsiung Youth Symphony Orchestra (Taiwan). 

Judy is the founder and artistic director of L’Orchestre symphonique des jeunes de Vaudreuil-Soulanges since 2021.

An experienced orchestral musician, she has served as violinist, violist and pianist with professional ensembles including Formosa Baroque, Montreal Chamber Orchestra, Studio de musique ancienne de Montréal (SMAM), Baton Rouge Symphony, Acadiana Symphony Orchestra, and Kaohsiung Symphony Orchestra, to name a few.  

In the field of contemporary music, Judy has performed for the National Association of Composers, USA (NACUSA), Society for New Music, and she has worked with composers including Pierre Gallant, Steven Stucky, John Harbison, Liduino Pitombeira, Michael Daugherty, and Herbert Owen Reed. 

She frequently offers lecture recitals and masterclasses in Asia and North America, including at Syracuse University (USA), at National Dong-Hua University (Taiwan), as well as at several Les Journées de la culture (Canada) events. 

Judy has contributed articles for The Journal of the Canadian Viola Society, Zi Zhu Diao 紫竹調; her dissertation “The Violin Sonata of Amy Beach” has published on the Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Collection of Louisiana State University.

Her principal teachers are Camilla Wicks, Kevork Mardirossian, Wen-liang Yiu 游文良 (violin); Jerzy Kosmala (viola); Michael Gurt, Steven Heyman, Pang-an Chen 陳盤安 (solo & collaborative piano); and Laurette Goldberg (harpsichord/fortepiano). She has worked extensively in masterclasses with Sigiswald Kuijen, Odile Edouard (Baroque violin), Costantino Mastroprimiano (fortepiano and 19th century historical pianos), Enrico Baiano (harpsichord), Toby Purser, Konstantinos Diminakis, and Denise Ham (orchestral and opera conducting).

Judy is grateful to Canada Council for the Arts, Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (CALQ), Conseil des arts et de la culture de Vaudreuil-Soulanges (CACVS) and MRC de Vaudreuil-Soulanges for supporting her recording, research, and concert touring projects.

Judy Hung holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Violin Performance with an Orchestral Conducting minor from Louisiana State University, and has completed Master’s degrees in Violin, Piano and Early Music Performance respectively from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Syracuse University and McGill University.