Home base / Las Vegas, Nevada

Las Vegas cellist.

Spike Jung is a cellist whose home base is Las Vegas, Nevada.

The place that holds it down.

Las Vegas is Spike’s home base. This is where he returns to the work: listening closely, practicing patiently, and making room for the next thing.

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Honors and achievements

  • YAO Symphony Honors Award — Outstanding Musician Award, May 2026
  • Las Vegas Philharmonic Young Artist Concerto Competition — Winner, January 2026
  • MTNA State Junior Strings Performance Competition — Winner, November 2025
  • Roger Bushell Scholarship Competition — 1st Place, April 2025
  • OPUS State Competition, String Category II — 1st Prize, December 2024
  • LVMTA Legacy Competition — 1st Place, March 2024

Study and performance

Spike has studied with Andrew Smith and Jeayoung Jo, taken master classes with Mark Kosower, Christopher Costanza, Movses Pogossian, and Ka-Wai Yu, and performed with the Young Artists Orchestra of Las Vegas Symphony.

Boston-area presence.

Spike will live in the Boston area while attending boarding school. Read the note about this upcoming chapter.

Read about Spike as a Boston-area cellist