Yoon Jung Hwang - Sound Off Quartet

From April 3rd to 5th, musical-abolitionist collective Sound Off: Music For Bail will be in residence at Upper East Side public performing arts staple Talent Unlimited High School, combining traditional chamber and orchestral coaching, discussion around equity in the classical music industry, and a world-first side-by-side recording of Thomas "Blind Tom" Wiggins' Water in the Moonlight, arranged by Daniel Bukin, to be released on major streaming platforms.

The quartet of Sound Off musicians includes violinists Jay Julio and Yoon Jung Hwang, violist Kayla Williams, and cellist Malachi Brown. The residency will conclude with a gala performance at the Julia Richman Education Complex, featuring student speakers, Sound Off's musicians and Talent Unlimited's own orchestra in chamber and orchestral performances of works by composers of color. Following the show, Talent Unlimited High School will host a reception on-site for audience members and musicians to meet.

Yoon Jung Hwang (she/her) is a NYC-based violinist from Korea. As a chamber musician, she has been featured at the Montclair Music Club and as string quartet musician with the Cell Theater's recent production of "The Final Veil". Orchestral performances have seen her on the Holland America Line Rotterdam with RWS Entertainment, premiering works with the Next Festival of Emerging Artists and Composers Concordance, and repeat appearances at Birdland with clarinetist/saxophonist Ken Peplowski in sold-out performances of Charlie Parker's eponymous album standards with strings. She has appeared at the Aspen and Lake Tahoe Music Festivals, the Next Festival of Emerging Artists, the Kinhaven Young Artists Seminar, and the inaugural Philadelphia Inclusive Arts Festival.

Yoon Jung works as a teaching artist with the Bronx Arts Ensemble and is on the violin faculty at the Crestwood Music Education Center in Scarsdale. She has also served as an adjunct faculty member at New York University.

Sound Off: Music for Bail is a collective of musicians, activists, and thinkers dedicated to combining music performance with educational work that envisions alternatives to the current state of policing and imprisonment in the U.S.