Spelman’s Department of Music faculty members Hyunjung Chung (piano), Roumena Georgieva (violin), and Joseph Jennings (clarinet) come together to present a concert of chamber music. Pianist Hyunjung "Rachel" Chung, a native of South Korea, performs extensively in recitals, chamber music concerts and conferences, and has appeared in numerous venues including Weill Recital Hall in Carnegie Hall, TCU/Pepsi Co. Recital Hall, Symphony Space, Merkin Concert Hall, Manhattan School of Music, New York University, Fisk University, and Yurim Art Hall.
Dr. Roumena Georgieva is an accomplished violinist with an international reputation. At the age of 23, she won a concertmaster position with the Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra. She also held the position of concertmaster and soloist with the Ladies’ Chamber Orchestra, and toured many times with both orchestras in the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Russia, and other countries.
She has numerous performances with the Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Varna Philharmonic Orchestra, the Russe Philharmonic Orchestra and other major symphony orchestras. As a soloist, she has toured and performed in Rome, Milan, Berlin, Leipzig, Thessalonica, and other cities.
Joseph Jennings, clarinetist and saxophonist, has been director of music at the Atlanta Center for Black Art, and artist-in residence at the Neighborhood Arts Center, also in Atlanta. He was the founder and director of the Neighborhood Arts Ensemble (a 22-piece big Band in Atlanta), leader of “The Joe Jennings Sextet,” founder and Director of the Metropolitan Atlanta Youth Ensemble--a jazz workshop for metropolitan youth and is the co-founder and director of the recording group, Life Force. Mr. Jennings has written many compositions and arrangements and performed on and produced several recordings.
