Masterclass Festival with Joong Han Jung
Our piano department's June Masterclass Festival, with visiting pianist Joong Han (Jonathan) Jung was a great success. Joong Han's wealth of experience as both performer and Asst. Professor at Lee University provided our students with new ideas and a lot to think about, with his stories providing some great laughs also! Thanks to Joong Han for so generously sharing his time across these two days.
Joong Han has a passion for collecting rare historical music recordings of the early twentieth century. He is now combining this passion with his academic interest: music theory and music analysis. Joong Han current research is on tempo rubato—an in-depth comparative study between nineteenth and twentieth-century pianists’ interpretations. His thesis, titled “Structural Hearing of Rubato,” is a pedagogical study of tempo fluctuation in music performance, focusing on motives, counterpoint, and harmonisation. Joong Han has presented his theoretical work at the MTNA and College Music Society conferences.
