Excelling as a violinist, conductor, chamber and orchestral musician, Dr. Hyunjee Chung is sought-after for her compelling and intelligent interpretations of a diverse repertoire from classical to contemporary. Chung made her solo debut with the Seoul National Symphony in 2010 performing the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto. Her recent solo engagements include a performance of the Beethoven Violin Concerto collaborating with Maestro Bramwell Tovey, and a performance of the Brahms Violin Concerto with the Narragansett Bay Symphony Orchestra. Chung has concertized widely, appearing on stages including Boston Symphony Hall, Jordan Hall, Adrienne Arsht Center, Snape Maltings Concert Hall, Seoul Arts Center, HongKong City Hall, National Grand Theater of Beijing, and Dubai Opera.

Both as a conductor and as a violinist, Chung holds the values of chamber music central to her approach as a musician. She has been a member of the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra (VFCO) since 2017. Her recent performances with the VFCO include residencies at Schloss Elmau, the Tsinandali Festival, as well as a concert tour of Hong Kong, China, and Dubai where she collaborated with musicians from Berliner Philharmoniker, Wiener Philharmoniker, and Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich. In the summer of 2022, Chung participated in VFCO’s final recording of the Beethoven Symphony cycle for Deutsche Grammophon in Switzerland.  She has performed with a number of renowned musicians including Sir Simon Rattle, Ivan Fischer, Zubin Mehta, Robert Spano, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Sir András Schiff, Manfred Honeck, Semyon Bychkov, Gianandrea Noseda, Sir Antonio Pappano, Daniel Harding, and Michael Tilson Thomas.

Chung has been invited to numerous festivals including Verbier Festival, Aldeburgh Festival, Taos School of Music, International Musicians Seminar at Prussia Cove, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, Festival Napa Valley, and Atlantic Music Festival, working closely with Robert McDonald, Peter Frankl, and members of the Brentano, Borromeo, Shanghai, Tokyo, and the Emerson String Quartets. Chung has a deep interest in exploring and sharing the ‘hidden gems’ of the violin and chamber repertoire; in particular the marginalized late works by Robert Schumann. She presented talks and lecture-performances on her research on R. Schumann’s Phantasie for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 131, and hopes to help students, fellow musicians, and the broader community become acquainted with these works.

A native of Seoul, Chung earned her Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Boston University, where she studied under Professor Bayla Keyes. She also studied at the New England Conservatory and holds a Master of Music degree from the Peabody Conservatory where she studied under violinist Soovin Kim. Additionally, she earned a Bachelor of Music degree from Seoul National University, where she studied with violinist Ju-Young Baek.

She held positions as Assistant Professor of Violin and Ensemble Director at the New World School of the Arts at Miami Dade College, Violin Instructor and Chamber Music Coach at Boston University’s College of Fine Arts, and faculty member at the Boston String Academy, a program inspired by the El Sistema model.

She has been invited to give masterclasses at institutions such as Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, Lynn University Conservatory of Music, Ohio University, and taught violin and chamber music at Saarburg International Festival in Germany. Chung has also guest conducted at UMass Amherst, the Greater Miami Youth Symphony Orchestra, and recently worked with the symphony orchestra at Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin.

Now based in Leipzig with her husband, violinist Orin Laursen, Chung continues to perform worldwide.