Founder and Director of the ClefWorks Music Festival, Benjamin Sung is currently Concertmaster of the Fargo-Moorhead Symphony Orchestra and a faculty member at both Minnesota State University-Moorhead and North Dakota State University. He is also the Artistic Director of the Cheryl Nelson Lossett Performing Arts Series at MSUM.

Sung has recently appeared as soloist and teacher at Festival Inverno de Garanhuns in Brazil, and was selected for the Chamber Music Residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts as a member of the Arsenal Trio. The 2009-10 season will see Sung return to Brazil at Festival Virtuosi de Gravata and Garanhuns, open the FM Symphony’s season as soloist in the Chaconne from John Corigliano’s Red Violin, appear with the Arsenal Trio in December performances of Beethoven’s Triple Concerto, and collaborate with composition faculty at Seoul National University in workshops and performances of new music.

Sung has performed as soloist with the Fargo-Moorhead Symphony Orchestra, National Repertory Orchestra, Texas Music Festival Orchestra, the Montgomery Symphony, and the Solistas do Virtuosi of Festival Internacionale de Musica in Recife, and has appeared as Guest Concertmaster of the Trondheim Symphony Orchestra in Norway. He has participated in the Professional Training Program at Carnegie Hall, the Lucerne Festival Academy (Switzerland), and the New York String Seminar. He is a past winner of the Starling Award competition of the Eastman School of Music and the Violin Fellowship competition of the Montgomery Symphony Orchestra, and was recipient of the Gladys Gingold Scholarship at Indiana University. Sung has recorded the music of composers Steve Rouse and Marc Satterwhite for Centaur Records.

Sung holds a Bachelor’s degree from the Eastman School of Music, where he studied with Oleh Krysa, and Master’s and Doctorate degrees from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, from the studio of Nelli Shkolnikova. He has also studied with Fredell Lack, Sonya Monosoff, Ida Kavafian, and Mitchell Stern. Benjamin currently lives with his wife Jihye Chang in Fargo, where he enjoys running, playing pool and snooker, and everything that comes out of Jihye’s kitchen.