Jennifer Sung
Voice
e-mail: jennifer.sung@csulb.edu
Lyric coloratura soprano Jennifer Sung enjoys a vibrant career that spans North America, Europe, and Asia. Praised for her "flexible" and "rich Mozartean singing," she has charmed audiences at renowned venues including Carnegie Hall, the Staller Center for the Arts in New York, the Dekelboum Concert Hall at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center in Washington, D.C., the Lotte Concert Hall in Seoul, Korea, and the Teatro Angelo Mariani in Rimini, Italy. Career highlights in the bel canto repertoire include the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor, Giulietta in I Capuleti e i Montecchi, and Adina in L’elisir d’amore. Her diverse operatic roles also include Mimì (La bohème), Gretel (Hansel und Gretel), Königin der Nacht (Die Zauberflöte), Zerlina (Don Giovanni), Blonde (Die Entführung aus dem Serail), Adele (Die Fledermaus), Madame Herz (Der Schauspieldirektor), La Fée (Cendrillon), and Anna (Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor), among many others. Most recently, in May 2024, Dr. Sung made her house debut with Vegas City Opera as Zerlina in Don Giovanni, earning enthusiastic praise from audiences.
Equally at home on the concert and recital stage, Dr. Sung appeared in April 2025 as the invited artist for the Noël Artist Series at Wingate University, presenting a recital (link here). In the summer of 2023, she captivated audiences with a program of Lithuanian art songs at the International College Music Society Conference in Vilnius, Lithuania. She has also appeared as soprano soloist in major concert and oratorio works, including Haydn’s Die Schöpfung, Bach’s Mass in B minor, Saint-Saëns’ Oratorio de Noël, Handel’s Messiah, Haydn’s Little Organ Mass, Scarlatti’s Su le sponde del Tebro, and many others.
Since joining the faculty at the Bob Cole Conservatory of Music in 2019, Dr. Sung’s students have earned national and international recognition, winning awards in competitions such as the Collegiate Vocal Competition Opera Grand Rapids, NATS Cal-Western Competition, Redlands Bowl Young Artist Competition, Southern California Philharmonic Young Artist Competition, and NATS LA Collegiate Competition. They have also been invited to prestigious music festivals including AIMS Graz, Miami Music Festival, Chicago Summer Opera, The Collaborative Piano Institute, Vienna Music Festival, Austrian American Mozart Academy, and many others.
Dr. Sung holds a B.M. from the Eastman School of Music, an M.M. from the Manhattan School of Music, and a D.M.A. from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Prior to her tenure at the Bob Cole Conservatory, she served as a voice instructor at Grand Valley State University and Stony Brook University.
