NEW MUSIC
A sustained engagement with the music of living composers through commissioning, premieres, programming, and recording. The Washington Post has singled out Fung’s “canny” programming.
Commissions and Premieres
Samuel Carl Adams — Sonatas (2018), written for and commissioned by David Fung; world premiere at Washington Performing Arts’ Hayes Piano Series, Kennedy Center (2018)
Krists Auznieks — Carmine (2019), solo piano work commissioned by David Fung
Dorothy Chang — Persistence (2025), commissioned and premiered by Trio Garibaldi
Dorothy Chang — Five (2012), “Echoes”; New York premiere at The Greene Space, WQXR by David Fung (2023)
Stephen Chatman — Garibaldi Suite (2023), commissioned by the Coast Recital Society; premiered by Trio Garibaldi
Chen Qigang — Piano Concerto: Er Huang, West Coast premiere with the San Francisco Symphony
Reena Esmail — Piano Trio (2019), commissioned by Town Hall Seattle; world premiere at Town Hall Seattle (2019)
J.P. Jofre — The Fifth Season, jointly commissioned by David Fung and Michael Guttman; New York premiere by David Fung (May 2024)
Lowell Liebermann — Romance, Etude, and Chorale for piano duet, Op. 134, world premiere at the Anchorage Chamber Music Festival by David Fung and Henry Kramer (2023)
Patrick Carrabré — Piano Concerto: A Guest on These Lands, written for David Fung; developed at The Banff Centre during Carrabré’s 2024 Fleck Fellowship; world premiere with the Kamloops Symphony (2026)
Christopher Theofanidis — Piano Quintet (2012)
Dinuk Wijeratne — The Poetry of Squares (2010); New York premiere at The Greene Space, WQXR by David Fung (2023)
RECITAL PROGRAMMING
John Adams · Gabriela Lena Frank · Missy Mazzoli · Nico Muhly · Einojuhani Rautavaara · Frederic Rzewski · Bright Sheng · Eric Tanguy · Carl Vine · Dinuk Wijeratne
RECORDINGS
David Sisco — Infrastructure (Métier Records, 2026) — album of songs
Trio Garibaldi — In Faded Sepia (ATMA Classique, 2026), featuring works by Lowell Liebermann, Dorothy Chang (Persistence), Stephen Chatman (Garibaldi Suite), and Duke Ellington, with arrangements by Yuri Kuriyama
Christopher Theofanidis — O Vis Aeternitatis, with the Argus Quartet
Avner Dorman — Sonata No. 2 for Violin and Piano, with SoJin Kim; recorded at the Gewandhaus, Leipzig, for Genuin Classics
Alfred Schnittke — Suite in the Old Style for Violin and Piano, with Francisco Fullana; Orchid Records
EARLY MUSIC
A fluent interpreter of early music on period instruments, Mr. Fung regularly performs on harpsichord and fortepiano, and previously served as Artist-in-Residence at the Yale Collection of Musical Instruments. A former member of the Yale Baroque Ensemble, he has an affinity for the music of the First Viennese School and has performed works by Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven on fortepiano. He was also the founding director of the University of Georgia Baroque Ensemble, whose students have gone on to pursue advanced studies at leading early-music institutions, including Juilliard415 and the Historical Performance Program at The Juilliard School. This season, he conducts and performs Bach’s complete Brandenburg Concertos from the harpsichord at the Northern Lights Music Festival.
INTERDISCIPLINARY PROJECTS
Mr. Fung's deep interest in the visual arts and literature has resulted in a number of interdisciplinary collaborations. He has written on the intersection between the visual arts and music, most notably the exploration of the visual perspectives on the hidden variation in Morton Feldman’s late work.
He is a collaborating artist with Mari Lee’s Salon Séance, which creates a unique and immersive experience that breaks the boundaries of a standard classical music concert presentation — a concert with incidental theatre. Mr. Fung was an actor and performer in Salon Séance’s Debussy in Persona, which was broadcast internationally on a number of music platforms during the pandemic.
Previous projects include QU4RTETS, which combined art by Bruce Herman and Makoto Fujimura with T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets, and At the Still Point by Christopher Theofanidis, as well as performances of Morton Feldman’s Palais de Mari with projections of Mark Rothko’s work.