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Judy Hung (Yu-Hsien Hung, 洪育仙) (born c. April 26, 1980) is a Taiwanese Canadian pianist, violinist and conductor.

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Judy Hung was born in Hsinchu, Taiwan. She began playing the piano at age 7 and the violin at age 11. When she was age 15, she entered the music department of the Tainan University of Technology Junior College Division. The same year, she won the second prize of a local piano competition. In 1993, she won the first prize of the Kaohsiung Music Competition Violin Division; the following year, she won the first prize of the Taiwan Music Competition Violin Division. She entered the Summer Music School at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, Russia in 1994, where she studied the violin with Edward Grach, piano with Lev Naumov and chamber music with the Shostakovitch String Quartet. The same year, she won the audition and joined the violin section of the Kaohsiung City Symphony Orchestra, with which she toured and performed in the major concert halls all over Asia. In 1996, Judy Hung entered and studied at the music department of the National Sun Yat-sen University, where she won the violin concerto competition. Upon graduation, she was selected to be a member of the Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society of America.

From 1997 to 1999, Judy Hung served as a music director for the National Sun Yat-sen University Community Orchestra, where she conducted the large instrumental ensemble, coached chamber music groups, and gave individual and group instructions in violin and piano. She also taught aural skills, music theory classes and coached chamber music groups at Feng-si Junior High School (鳳西國民中學). Judy Hung has been equally devoted to the piano. Since 1994, she has performed numerous instrumental and vocal recitals as a collaborative pianist. Particularly with oboist Akris Hung (洪小琴), a member of the Capriccio Chamber Player (汲音木管室內樂團), they toured and performed extensively all over Taiwan.