APPLY FOR THE KEYBOARD MASTERCLASS!
The Keyboard Masterclass with Ji Hye Jung will take place on
Friday, November 14, at PASIC50.
Applications for the Keyboard Masterclass open August 1, 2025.
About Ji Hye Jung
Praised as “spectacular” by the Los Angeles Times and “extraordinary” by the Ventura County Star, the Times describes percussionist Ji Hye Jung as “a centered player who can give the impression of being very still yet at all places at once”. Ms. Jung began concertizing in her native South Korea at the age of nine where she performed more than 100 concerts including solo appearances with every major orchestra in Korea. Soon after coming to the United States in 2004, Ms. Jung garnered consecutive first prizes at the 2006 Linz International Marimba Competition and the 2007 Yale Gordon Concerto Competition.
With percussion repertoire still in its formative stages, Ms. Jung feels strongly about collaborating with composers to further the creation of a new voice for the art form. She has commissioned and premiered works by several important composers including, Kevin Puts, Alejandro Viñao, Paul Lansky, John Serry, Lukas Ligeti, and Jason Treuting. In 2013 she made the premier recording of Michael Torke’s marimba concerto Mojave and in 2014 recorded Phillip Glass’ Concerto Fantasy for Two Timpanists and Orchestra for the Naxos label.
Ms. Jung frequently performs with many of today’s most important conductors and instrumentalists. For six years she has served as principal percussionist with the west coast-based chamber music ensemble Camerata Pacifica, with whom she has premiered works by Bright Sheng and Huang Ruo. She has also recorded Stravinsky’s Les Noces with JoAnn Falletta at the Virginia Arts Festival, performed as soloist with David Robertson conducting an all Messiaen program at Carnegie Hall, and made her concerto debut with the Houston Symphony under the baton of Hans Graf in 2005.
Other performance credits include appearances at Portugal’s Tomarimbando Festival, the West Cork Chamber Music Festival in Ireland, The Intimacy of Creativity in Hong Kong, the Grand Teton Music Festival, Germany’s Schleswig-Holstein Festival, and the Grachtenfestival in Holland.
In 2015 Ji Hye Jung was named Associate Professor of Percussion at Vanderbilt University’s Blair School of Music. She previously served as Associate Professor of Percussion at the University of Kansas for six years. An active educator and clinician, Jung has presented masterclasses at the Curtis Institute, the Peabody Conservatory, Rice University, Beijing’s Central Conservatory, and the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice, Poland.
Ji Hye Jung completed a Master of Music degree from the Yale School of Music and a Bachelor of Music degree at the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University, both under the tutelage of Robert van Sice. As an artist endorser, she proudly represents Pearl/Adams instruments, Vic Firth sticks and mallets, and Zildjian cymbals.
The Process
Who can apply?
The Keyboard Masterclass is open to all high school and university/college students. See eligible pieces below.
How to apply?
All applicants must submit a preliminary video performance of a solo similar in nature to the works below. Up to three soloists will be selected for the masterclass. If selected, you will perform the piece at Ji Hye’s PASIC50 masterclass. New or previously recorded videos are welcome.
One high school and two university/college applicants will be selected to participate in the masterclass.
Suggested Repertoire:
- Time for Marimba by Minoru Miki
- Dances of Earth and Fire by Peter Klatzow
- Velocities by Joseph Schwantner
- Two Movements by Toshimitsu Tanaka
- Khan Variations by Alejandro Viñao
Other works similar in nature are allowed for both the application and PASIC Masterclass.
Participation Details
PAS Membership
All applicants must be current members of the Percussive Arts Society through November 30, 2025. Applicants can join PAS, or renew their membership here.
