Born in Busan, South Korea, award-winning pianist, composer and songwriter HaeunJoo is making a name for herself as a highly original composer and a thoughtful performer. Having grown up around the jazz, funk and pop of the Seoul scene, she eventually decided to search for the source of the jazz sound she loved so much, moving to the United States in 2011 to study at Berklee School of Music. She moved to New York to study at SUNY Purchase where she got her master’s degree and where she has been actively playing since. In 2021 Haeun Joo released her debut album, “We Will Find”. An introspective exploration of deep thoughts realized in a hopeful idiom with dashes of melancholia, We Will Find is contemplative jazz with a modern sensibility which features Matt Holman doubling trumpet, Doug Weiss on bass and Ronen Itzik on drums. She will be performing her new compositions soon to be recorded with her trio.

Chris Tordini on bass, Steven Crammer

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