Lisa Sung is an award-winning jazz educator and performer who received the highest artistic development award, the John Sites Jazz Award, in 2022.  

Lisa has performed and recorded with Terell Stafford, Rodney Whitaker, Ron McClure, Stafford Hunter, Rob Smith, Thomas Knific, Diego Rivera, Dmitri Methany, Jordan VanHemert, John Webber, and many other prominent musicians. Lisa's passion is to interpret Asian Melodie into jazz. Her latest album Half Moon consists of traditional Korean children's songs.

Ms. Sung is an adjunct professor at Calvin University and Aquinas College. She also directs Calvin University’s jazz band and co-directs the gospel choir. This fall, Ms. Sung began her Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) program at the University of Michigan and was honored with the prestigious Rachem Merit Fellowship. Lisa studied at Temple University with Terell Stafford, and Thomas Lawton, and completed her graduate studies at NYU with Ron McClure, and Don Friedman. 

She was recently sponsored by JSJA and had a successful Indonesia, Korea, and Vietnam tour. Lisa Sung Trio was featured in CNN Indonesia, where they played a variety of Indonesian Children's Songs and music from Lisa Sung’s latest album Half Moon. Lisa’s quartet also performed Vietnamese Children's Songs at the first International Jazz Festival in Nha Trang which was broadcast nationally.  

Ms. Sung will continue to tour the Philippines and Stuttgart, Germany in 2025.