Juri Seo, Princeton University
Assistant Professor
Princeton, New Jersey
juri@princeton.edu
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(609) 258-4244
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Ju Ri Seo has performed internationally in the United States, South Korea, Columbia, Italy, Taiwan, England, Germany, and Iceland, composer and pianist Ju Ri Seo seeks to create coherent and complex musical structure by way of allusions to traditional music, sonic ambiguity with microtones and co...
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Bio/Research
Ju Ri Seo has performed internationally in the United States, South Korea, Columbia, Italy, Taiwan, England, Germany, and Iceland, composer and pianist Ju Ri Seo seeks to create coherent and complex musical structure by way of allusions to traditional music, sonic ambiguity with microtones and composed resonance, and simple materials that often take a surprising course. She writes for all instrumental forces, including electronics, for both professionals and amateurs.
Recipient of a Goddard Lieberson Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Kate Neal Kinley Memorial Fellowship, and Otto Eckstein Fellowship from Tanglewood, she is the winner of the 21st Century Piano Commissioning Competition at the University of Illinois, the Commissioning Competition for the Renee B. Fisher Piano Competition, and SoundSCAPE Festival Composition Prize. Her recent commissions came from diverse groups such as the Tanglewood Music Center, Icelandic duo Harpverk, Dinosaur Annex, cimbalist Nick Tolle, violinist Silvian Iticovici, Libertyville High School Percussion Ensemble, and St. Louis University High School Men’s Chorus.
Ju Ri holds a D.M.A. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and her doctoral research focused on Jonathan Harvey’s string quartets. She has also studied at Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia (Rome); Tanglewood, Bang on a Can, and SoundSCAPE festivals; and, has presented at SEAMUS, NASA, and Society of Composers Conferences. Her teachers include Reynold Tharp and Ivan Fedele.
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Recipient of a Goddard Lieberson Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Kate Neal Kinley Memorial Fellowship, and Otto Eckstein Fellowship from Tanglewood, she is the winner of the 21st Century Piano Commissioning Competition at the University of Illinois, the Commissioning Competition for the Renee B. Fisher Piano Competition, and SoundSCAPE Festival Composition Prize. Her recent commissions came from diverse groups such as the Tanglewood Music Center, Icelandic duo Harpverk, Dinosaur Annex, cimbalist Nick Tolle, violinist Silvian Iticovici, Libertyville High School Percussion Ensemble, and St. Louis University High School Men’s Chorus.
Ju Ri holds a D.M.A. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and her doctoral research focused on Jonathan Harvey’s string quartets. She has also studied at Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia (Rome); Tanglewood, Bang on a Can, and SoundSCAPE festivals; and, has presented at SEAMUS, NASA, and Society of Composers Conferences. Her teachers include Reynold Tharp and Ivan Fedele.
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