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Helen Sung

At Keys Jazz Bistro

North Beach, San Francisco

🎷Patrons note the atmosphere is intimate and welcoming, with excellent sound and sightlines.
🍽️Reviewers recommend arriving hungry to enjoy the venue's simple and delicious dinner menu.

Guggenheim Fellow, pianist, and composer Helen Sung performs with her Oracles Quartet at Keys Jazz Bistro, presenting quartet arrangements of musical portraits dedicated to jazz icons who mentored her.

Guggenheim Fellow Helen Sung
Oracles Quartet performance
Keys Jazz Bistro stage
Mentor-inspired big band arrangements

Wednesday, November 4, 7:00 PM

$30

Helen Sung

New York-based jazz pianist‑composer leading a contemporary quartet

Headliner


Helen Sung is a Guggenheim Fellow, Steinway artist and pianist‑composer who leads the Oracles Quartet. The quartet presents re‑imagined selections from her 2026 big‑band album Oracles, featuring jazz portraits of mentors such as Clark Terry and Wayne Shorter, and includes vibraphonist Steve Nelson, bassist David Ephross and drummer Adam Cruz. She is based in New York City and serves as visiting faculty at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and an associate professor at Columbia University.

What are you into?

  • Guggenheim Fellow Helen Sung
  • Oracles Quartet performance
  • Keys Jazz Bistro stage
  • Mentor-inspired big band arrangements
  • Keys Jazz Bistro
  • North Beach
  • San Francisco

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