Hyejin Jung is a choral conductor renowned for her musical, effortless, and energetic conducting style. Jung has notable achievements, including serving as an assistant conductor for the Korean Church Union’s 50th Handel’s Messiah Grand Concert, where she rehearsed a choir of over 300 voices, and securing third place in The National Chorus of Korea Choral Conducting Competition in 2017. More recently, she has been a part of the teaching team for the USC Thornton Oriana Choir and served as an assistant conductor for the Concert Choir. Jung is the choir conductor for the Miracle LA Church in Los Angeles and an assistant conductor for the Korean Community Christian Singers Los Angeles. In the realms of both instrumental and choral conducting, she was an assistant conductor for Mozart’s opera Die Zauberflöte in 2016 and a fellow conductor at the 2023 Chorus America Choral-Orchestra Academy and the 2019 Seoul Oratorio Festival.
As a choral conductor and scholar, Jung is passionately dedicated to enhancing the appreciation of works by Asian composers, focusing on deepening, broadening, and sometimes correcting the legacy of Orientalism. During her doctoral studies, she introduced a broad spectrum of Korean choral works to the United States, ranging from accessible and enjoyable compositions to those addressing themes of historical trauma, tragedy, protest, and solace. She earned her MM degree from Ewha Womans University in Seoul, South Korea. She recently passed her qualifying exam for her DMA degree in choral music at the University of Southern California and is currently writing her dissertation, an analysis of contemporary choral work written in post-tonal theory, titled “From Sigh to Cries: Analysis on Vide Domine, Vide Afflictionem Nostram by Pagh-Paan Younghi.”