Hyejin Jung

Hyejin Jung, a native South Korean, is a third-year doctoral student majoring in choral music at the Thornton School of Music, University of Southern California. She is the artistic director of Los Feliz United Methodist Church in LA and was a teaching assistant in the Department of Choral and Sacred Music at USC and as well as the assistant conductor for USC Thornton Concert Choir last year. Throughout her master’s degree of choral conducting at Ewha Womans University, Jung worked as a teaching assistant for choral ensembles. While attending Ewha, she also served as an assistant conductor for Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte. After completion of her master’s degree, Jung was placed third at The National Chorus of Korea Choral Conducting Competition. She served as an assistant conductor of the Korean Church Union 50th Handel’s Messiah Grand Concert and was one of the final concert conductors in the Seoul Oratorio Festival in 2019. Jung was the choral music teacher at Seo-Incheon High School and served at Sung-dong Central Church as the music director and at Yongnak Prebyterian Church English Worship Service as the choir conductor. Jung received her B.A. degree in philosophy and political science, after which she taught philosophy to high school students at the Logic and Philosophy Academy in Korea for five years. She received her MM in choral conducting from Ewha Womans University under the guidance of Dr. Shinhwa Park.