Discover Joy of Making Music

Paul Jung is a second generation music teacher, born to a musical family and raised in a piano school ran by his mother. Since birth Paul was surrounded by music in his life, and had been learning piano for as long as he can remember. Paul's mother who was also his piano teacher, trained him with moveable-solfege ear training method using children's folk songs, taught him how to read music, and Paul's daily routine upon returning home from elementary school was to practice scales and pieces using metronome before he was allowed to play. At age 8 Paul started taking drum lessons at a local music school, and by age 9 Paul started accompanying drums at his grandfather's church services. By 2001, after immigrating to the United States in Annandale, Paul became more serious about playing drums, and continued taking music classes as well as beginning to perform at different churches, schools, and rock venues. In 2008 Paul was awarded scholarship to attend Berklee College of Music and graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in 2012. Following graduation, Paul returned to Northern Virginia and pursued a profressional musical career as a jazz musician. Upon starting performance career in the DMV, Paul has served the music scene by making music in such venues as the Kennedy Center, Blues Alley, Jammin Java, Twins Jazz Club, Bohemian Caverns, Jojo's Restaurant & Bar, Mr. Henry's Jazz Club, and many more. Paul also served as the last drummer in Butch Warren's band, whom as a bassist recorded and performed with such greats as Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and Herbie Hancock. In 2022 Paul was awarded scholarship to attend the Peabody Institute of the John's Hopkins University. There he was placed under discipline of director Sean Jones of the Peabody Jazz Program, and was given opportunities to perform at the Lincoln Center, Mid-Atlantic Jazz Festival with Walter Smith III, and in Bologna Italy on behalf of the Peabody Jazz program. Paul's work has been nominated at the 2019 WAMMIES Music Awards (www.wammies.org) for recording drums for jazz pianist and songwriter Oren Levine's album "Making Up For Lost Time". In 2024 Paul's work as a drummer was again recognied at the 2024 WAMMIES for participating as a drummer for Kyaira Ware's "Almost 30", which won the Best R&B/Soul Album of the year.