Mia Chung-Yee, Founder & Executive Director, teaches a celebrated chamber music performance seminar at Harvard University with the Grammy Award-winning Parker Quartet. She previously served as a Professor of Musical Studies and Performance at the Curtis Institute of Music from 2012-2023 and as a Professor of Music at Gordon College from 1991-2011. Chung’s CD and DVD recordings of works by Bach, Beethoven,  Schumann, and Lee Hyla, among others, have earned high praise and awards. Chung received the Avery Fisher Career Grant, the highest national recognition for young concert artists, and was a first-prize winner at the Concert Artists Guild competition. She has since performed in major concert halls in the U.S., Canada, Central America, the Netherlands, Austria, Italy, Switzerland, Japan, South Korea, Thailand, Singapore, and the former Soviet Union. Her first short monograph, Chinese Émigré Composers and Divergent Modernisms: Chen Yi and Zhou Long, was published in May 2024 by Cambridge University Press (Elements in Music Since 1945 Series). In addition to her work at the Octet Collaborative, Mia is a senior fellow for the Trinity Forum and a senior scholar for the Veritas Forum. In 2026-27, she will serve as the Randall Distinguished Professor in Christian Culture at Providence College. Chung earned her AB, magna cum laude in music, from Harvard College, a Master of Music degree from Yale University, and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the Juilliard School.