Rachel Jung
It’s time to share with YOU everything I’ve learned.
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About Me
Using music to honor the resilience of marginalized communities and to promote human rights and social justice, recipient of Music of Remembrance’s (MOR) David Tokonogui Memorial Award, Rachel Jung, also strives to foster community and connection through music performance. She has performed solo with orchestras like the Seattle Symphony, Bainbridge Symphony, Bellevue Symphony, and the Eastside Symphony. As an avid chamber musician, she has also performed with chamber groups on stages like Benaroya for events like a MOR concert and Seattle Chamber Music Society’s (SCMS) Summer and Winter Festival preconcerts, as well as at Texas and Indiana for the Coltman Chamber Music Competition and the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, garnering second prize at the former. Her piano trio, the Eura Trio, has appeared on broadcasts on the Classical King FM 98.1 Northwest Focus Live program and NPR’s From The Top. She has also given a 30-minute solo concert for the community as a part of SCMS’s summer outdoor event “The Music under the Stars.”
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About Me Continued
She has also won numerous 1st place awards at violin competitions including: Seattle MTA, Simon-Fiset, receiving the Kent Coleman Memorial Trophy & Verna Powell Award; Seattle Russian Festival; Seattle Bach and Classical Viennese Festival; Korean Music Association; The Elite International Music Competition; The OPUS National Music Competition; ENKOR International Music Competition; WMEA State Solo & Ensemble; and the Performing Arts Festival of the Eastside receiving the Engstrom Memorial Award and the Edgar Borup Memorial Award and the concerto playoffs 1st place award. Rachel was also selected as a 2025 and 2026 National YoungArts Award Winner.
She has had the privilege of being coached by world-class musicians and ensembles like James Ehnes, Yura Lee, Ann Setzer, Amy Schwartz Moretti, Soovin Kim, Fabiola Kim, the Ehnes Quartet, the Dover Quartet, and the Eroica Trio.
Rachel currently studies with Simon James, collaborative pianist Chien-Lin Lu, and music theory with Hiro David, having previously studied with Jan Coleman and Anna-Ruth Boyce. She will be studying with Mr. Robert Lipsett at the Colburn Conservatory of Music next year.