Juri Seo
Juri Seo | |
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| Born | December 31, 1981 South Korea |
| Alma mater | |
| Occupation | Composer |
| Employer | Princeton University |
| Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship (2016) |
| Academic background | |
| Thesis | Jonathan Harvey's string quartets (2013) |
| Doctoral advisor | Reynold Tharp |
| Musical career | |
| Genres | Contemporary classical music[1][2] |
| Labels | Innova Records |
Juri Seo (Korean: 서주리; born December 31, 1981) is a South Korean composer. A 2016 Guggenheim Fellow, she has released several albums, two of which were with Innova Recordings. She is also an associate professor of music at the Princeton University Department of Music.
Biography
[edit]Juri Seo was born on December 31, 1981[3] in South Korea.[4] She studied at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia under Ivan Fedele, and obtained her bachelor of arts degree at Yonsei University and her master of music and doctor of musical arts degrees at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.[5] Her doctoral dissertation Jonathan Harvey's string quartets (2013) was supervised by Reynold Tharp.[6]
She is an associate professor of music at the Princeton University Department of Music.[5] She was awarded an American Academy of Arts and Letters Goddard Lieberson Fellowship in 2014.[7] In 2016, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.[8]
She released two albums with Innova Recordings: Mostly Piano (2017) and Respiri (2019).[1][2] Andrew Stock of I Care If You Listen said that the latter "illuminates some of [her] core aesthetic preoccupations through a trio of key works".[9] In 2021, she was awarded an Andrew Imbrie Award in Music in 2021.[7] She released another album Toy Store, a collaboration with violinist Jinjoo Cho, through Carrier Records on May 5, 2024.[10] She performed the main titular piece for Wonkak Kim and Eunhye Grace Choi's album Arcade, which Patrick Hanudel of the American Record Guide called a "spunky opener".[11]
Hyeseon Jin cites the South Korean state and Korean traditional music as inspirations for Seo's work.[12]
She is from Princeton, New Jersey.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Mostly Piano". Innova Recordings. Retrieved May 1, 2025.
- ^ a b "Respiri". Innova Recordings. Retrieved May 1, 2025.
- ^ "Juri Seo, composer & pianist". Juri Seo. Retrieved April 29, 2025.
- ^ "Juilliard Percussion Ensemble" (PDF). The Juilliard School. 2018. Retrieved May 1, 2025.
- ^ a b c "Juri Seo". Department of Music at Princeton University. Retrieved April 29, 2025.
- ^ "Jonathan Harvey's string quartets". IDEALS. Retrieved May 1, 2025.
- ^ a b "All Awards". American Academy of Arts and Letters. Retrieved April 30, 2025.
- ^ "Juri Seo". Guggenheim Fellowship. Retrieved April 28, 2025.
- ^ Stock, Andrew (August 27, 2019). "Respiri: Juri Seo and Argus Quartet Debut Sophomore Portrait on innova". I Care If You Listen. Retrieved April 29, 2025.
- ^ McKay, Tristan (May 28, 2024). "Juri Seo's "Toy Store" Plays Upon Memory, Nostalgia, and Childhood". I Care If You Listen. Retrieved April 29, 2025.
- ^ Hanudel, Patrick (2025). "Arcade". American Record Guide. Vol. 88, no. 2. p. 133. ProQuest 3168807269.
- ^ Jin, Hyeseon (2024). Harmonizing Ordinary Elements into Unconventional: Exploring the Musical Style of Korean Living Composer, Juri Seo (Doctor of Music thesis). Indiana University.
| International | |
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| National | |
| Artists | |
- 1981 births
- Living people
- South Korean expatriates in the United States
- Expatriate musicians in the United States
- 21st-century South Korean classical composers
- South Korean women classical composers
- 21st-century American classical composers
- American women classical composers
- Musicians from Princeton, New Jersey
- Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia alumni
- Yonsei University alumni
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumni
- Princeton University faculty