Helen Sung, Piano

Date and Time

• Friday, Feb 12, 2027  7pm - 8:30pm

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On Friday, February 12, jazz pianist Helen Sung and her quintet present her Live Wire Project. Inspired by dialogues with Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientists and examining the arts as a celebration of our brains during her jazz residency at Columbia University’s prestigious Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, Helen Sung's Live Wire Project is music about bird song, the electric dance of neurons, and the wonders of our shared humanity.

Helen Sung's Live Wire Project has been made possible with support from Chamber Music America’s New Jazz Works program funded through the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

Pianist, composer, and a Guggenheim Fellow, Helen Sung has worked with such luminaries as Clark Terry, Wayne Shorter, Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Cecile McLorin Salvant, and the Mingus Big Band. She currently serves on the faculties of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and Columbia University, where she was the inaugural jazz artist-in-residence at its Zuckerman Institute exploring intersections of jazz and neuroscience.

The quintet includes piano, bass, drums, saxophone, and DJ.

“Sung plays with crisp swing and elegant invention, her rhythms drawing from the music’s deepest blues roots – and setting listeners’ heads bobbing – while she explores her own fresh ideas, often inspired from her classical training.”
- The New York Times

The February 12th Jazz at All Saints’ concert takes place in the sanctuary of All
Saints’ Episcopal Church beginning at 7:00 p.m. It will be followed by a Q&A with
Jazz at All Saints’ Artistic Director Virginia Schenck and a reception in the Parish
House. Concert tickets are $25/adult and $15/student. They can be purchased at