Parker Jazz Club Presents... Helen Sung

Wed, Feb 12

Return to Austin: Helen Sung's Live Wire Quartet Debuts at Parker Jazz Club! Virtuoso pianist, composer, and Guggenheim Fellow Helen Sung makes her compelling debut at Parker presenting JazzPlasticity with her Live Wire Quartet. The Houston native comes from New York City to bring an innovative project born at Columbia University's prestigious Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, where she served as the first-ever Jazz Artist-in-Residence. Through intimate dialogue with Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientists, Sung crafted compositions of profound emotional resonance that celebrate the depths of human consciousness and connection -- a collection of original music and arrangements inspired by bird song, the electric dance of neurons, and the wonders of our shared humanity. A graduate of University of Texas, Sung's own evolutionary journey from classical pianist to jazz virtuoso mirrors the very neural plasticity her music explores – a testament to the brain's extraordinary capacity for transformation. Join us for this Texas homecoming, an incredible evening of interplay revealing new possibilities bridging brain science and improvisatory musical expression at the intersection of mind and music. Helen Sung's Live Wire Quartet with: John Ellis, sax/flute Jonathon Muir-Scott, bass Ofri Nehemya, drums