IAN YEONCHAN CHUNG

Ian Yeonchan Chung is a composer who creates a distinctive voice that interculturally transcends musical boundaries and reaches out to a more diverse audience by combining elements of classical, jazz, and non-Western music. He is currently pursuing a D.M.A. in composition at the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory. He completed his Master of Music at Brooklyn College under the supervision of Tania León and Jason Eckardt, where he cultivated his cosmopolitan approach to music composition. He also studied jazz composition with Michael Mossman, who helped to build his musical identity. Ian Chung recently won numerous awards, including the James E. Croft Grant for Emerging Wind Band Composers, the Dr. Gerald Kemner Prize Orchestra Composition Competition, the ASCAP Louis Armstrong Scholarship, the Hitchcock Institute for Studies in American Music, and the 8th Esko Linnavalli Big Band Composition Competition in Finland.