NEW MUSIC
A proponent of living composers, Mr. Fung has premiered and commissioned new works by Samuel Carl Adams, Krists Auznieks, Dorothy Chang, Stephen Chatman, QiGang Chen, Reena Esmail, Michael Gilbertson, JP Jofre, Lowell Liebermann, and Christopher Theofanidis. In recent seasons, he has programmed recitals centered around works by John Adams, Gabriela Lena Frank, Missy Mazzoli, Nico Muhly, Einojuhani Rautavaara, Frederic Rzewski, Bright Sheng, Eric Tanguy, Carl Vine, and Dinuk Wijeratne. Samuel Carl Adams wrote Sonatas (2018) for Mr. Fung, which were premiered at Washington Perforing Arts Hayes Series at the Kennedy Center in 2018. In 2023, Mr. Fung performed works by Dorothy Chang and Dinuk Wijeratne live at the Greene Space for WQXR (New York Public Radio) for their AAPI Heritage Month Celebrations and gave the world premiere of Lowell Liebermann’s Romance, Etude, and Chorale for piano duet, Op.134, at the Anchorage Chamber Music Festival.
Mr. Fung gave the West Coast Premiere of Chen Qigang’s Piano Concerto, “Er Huang”, with the San Francisco Symphony. In 2018, he recorded Christopher Theofanidis' O Vis Aeternitatis with the Argus Quartet, Avner Dorman's Sonata No. 2 for Violin and Piano with SoJin Kim at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig for Genuin Classics, and Alfred Schnittke's Suite in the Old Style for Violin and Piano with Francisco Fullana for Orchid Records. In 2019, he gave the world premiere performance of Reena Esmail’s Piano Trio at the Seattle Town Hall Series recorded by Second Inversion.
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.
EARLY MUSIC
A fluent interpreter of early works on period instruments, Mr. Fung frequently performs on harpsichord, chamber organ, and fortepiano in recital and with ensembles such as Yale’s Schola Cantorum, under conductors including David Hill, Masaki Suzuki, and Simon Carrington. He has appeared in solo and chamber recitals at the Yale Collection of Musical Instruments, where he served as Artist in Residence as a member of the Yale Baroque Ensemble, and has collaborated with distinguished artists such as Robert Mealy, Arthur Haas, Barthold Kuijken, and Phoebe Carrai.
Mr. Fung has a particular interest in the music of the First Viennese School, and has performed works by Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven on fortepiano in Germany and the United States. He was 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, Juilliard’s Historical Performance Program. This season, Fung conducts and performs Bach’s complete Brandenburg Concertos at the Northern Lights Music Festival from the harpsichord.