The Longing for Rest

Performance by Mia Chung-Yee, DMA, Executive Director of the Octet Collaborative at MIT and Shabbat Framing by Rabbi Mychal Springer, DDiv, MA, Manager of Clinical Pastoral Education at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital.

5-6pm- Reception

6-7pm- Performance

Italian Academy, Teatro, Columbia University, 1161 Amsterdam Ave.

Pianist Mia Chung teaches a celebrated chamber music performance seminar at Harvard University with the Grammy Award-winning Parker Quartet. She previously served as Professor of Musical Studies and Performance at the Curtis Institute of Music from 2012 to 2023. Chung’s 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). Recently, Mia has taken interest in the work of Christian study centers and has founded and led the Octet Collaborative at MIT. In 2026–27, she will serve as the Randall Distinguished Professor in Christian Culture at Providence College. Dr. 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. She serves as a senior scholar for the Veritas Forum and as a senior fellow for the Trinity Forum.

Rabbi Mychal B. Springer is the manager of Clinical Pastoral Education at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. She founded and directed the Center for Pastoral Education at the Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) in Manhattan and was the first Conservative rabbi to be certified as an Educator by ACPE: The Standard for Spiritual Care & Education. Her most recent publication is “Spiritual Care in Light of COVID-19: A Jewish Perspective” in What Is Spiritual Care? Perspectives from Different Religious Traditions and Professions (Pickwick Publications, expected Spring 2025). Mychal received her BA in Judaic Studies and Religious Studies from Yale College magna cum laude. She was ordained a Conservative rabbi and received her master’s in Judaic Studies and a Doctor of Divinity at JTS. Mychal is a certified Jewish chaplain in Neshama: Association of Jewish Chaplains and an adjunct instructor of Pastoral Care & Counseling at JTS.

This special presentation is a part of Columbia's Center for Clinical Medical Ethics annual colloquium on Medicine & the Art of Ethics. Please email [email protected] if you have any questions.

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