Helen Sung’s Live Wire Project with Helen Sung (piano) John Ellis (saxophone) Vicente Archer (bass) Kush Abadey (drums) Wendel Patrick (DJ) Live Wire Project (Jazz Plasticity) by Helen Sung and the Helen Sung Group has been made possible with support from Chamber Music America’s New Jazz Works program funded through the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. Helen Sung is an award-winning jazz pianist and composer and a Guggenheim Fellow. Diverging from her classical upbringing after a jazz epiphany during studies at the University of Texas at Austin, she went on to graduate in the inaugural class of the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Performance (re-named the Herbie Hancock Institute) and win the Kennedy Center’s Mary Lou Williams Piano Competition. In addition to her own band and projects, she has worked with such luminaries as Clark Terry, Wayne Shorter, Ron Carter, Wynton Marsalis, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Regina Carter, Terri Lyne Carrington, Cecile McLorin Salvant, and the Mingus Big Band. She is currently on faculty at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and Columbia University, where she also was the inaugural jazz artist-in-residence at its Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute exploring intersections of jazz and neuroscience. A Steinway Artist, “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.” (New York Times)