People — Hugh Sung

Hugh Sung on Online Teaching at Contrabass Conversations

My good friend Jason Heath recently caught wind of my various online ensemble and pedagogy projects and graciously invited me to be interviewed on his fantastic podcast, Contrabass Conversations. Jason does such a fantastic job at producing content that’s applicable for all musicians across the board, not just contrabass players. And with over 2 million downloads to date and hundreds of episodes under his belt (yikes, mine is #691!!) Jason is definitely one of the leading voices of classical music in the podcast-verse.

Hugh SungMay 3, 2020podcast, musictech, pedagogy, musiceducation, entrepreneur Comments

Hanging out with Jasmine Choi after a concert

After a wonderful recital with Jasmine Choi at the 2020 Mid-Atlantic Flute Convention in Washington D.C., we decided to check out a local Korean restaurant with Jasmine’s cousin and her boyfriend. While waiting for our fabulous meal to be served, Jasmine and I reflected on how wonderful it was seeing such an enthusiastic (and young!) audience at the recital - what we loved about the music we performed (works by Katherine Hoover, Jules Moquet, and Gabriel Faure), and our future performance plans around the world in cities like Madrid, Taipei, and Tokyo.

Hugh SungFebruary 17, 2020flute, classicalmusic, woodwind, jasminechoi, postconcertComment

Aurélia Azoulay-Guetta, Co-Founder of Newzik Sheet Music App for iOS

In this episode of A Musical Life, I interview Aurélia Azoulay-Guetta, one of the co-founders of a fascinating sheet music reader app called Newzik for iOS. Newzik is very popular among musicians in Europe, and has one killer feature that is convincing me to switch to using this a my own primary sheet music reader app!

Hugh SungFebruary 2, 2020newzik, apps, digitalsheetmusic, airturn, france, ipad, ios, iphone, entrepreneur, musictechComment

Piano Trucker

So after the end of a very long day here at Cunningham Piano, just as we were closing out, we had a piano being delivered and I had chance to meet up with Brian Hart, a trucker who works with Walter Piano Transport, a company that specializes in cross country piano deliveries. Brian has been with them for 2 years, and has made a career as a trucker for a total of 40+ years. We were just sitting and chatting - I'm ready to get ready to go home- but Brian’s stories were so interesting, I knew I had to pull out the camera even though I didn’t have my microphones with me.

Hugh SungJanuary 18, 2020piano, pianotechnicianComment