| Birth date | December 31, 1981 (age 44) |
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| Birth place | South Korea |
| Occupation | Composer |
| Employer | Princeton University |
| Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship (2016) |
| Thesis url | https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/items/44216 |
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| Thesis year | 2013 |
| Doctoral advisor | Reynold Tharp |
| Genre | Contemporary classical music[1][2] |
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| Label | 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 Professor at the Princeton University Department of Music.
Biography
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 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
- ^ "Mostly Piano". Innova Recordings. Retrieved 2025-05-01.
- ^ "Respiri". Innova Recordings. Retrieved 2025-05-01.
- ^ "Juri Seo, composer & pianist". Juri Seo. Retrieved 2025-04-29.
- ^ "Juilliard Percussion Ensemble". The Juilliard School. 2018. Retrieved 2025-05-01.
- ^ "Juri Seo". Department of Music at Princeton University. Retrieved 2025-04-29.
- ^ "Jonathan Harvey's string quartets". IDEALS. Retrieved 2025-05-01.
- ^ "All Awards". American Academy of Arts and Letters. Retrieved 2025-04-30.
- ^ "Juri Seo". Guggenheim Fellowship. Retrieved 2025-04-28.
- ^ Stock, Andrew (2019-08-27). "Respiri: Juri Seo and Argus Quartet Debut Sophomore Portrait on innova". I Care If You Listen. Retrieved 2025-04-29.
- ^ McKay, Tristan (2024-05-28). "Juri Seo's "Toy Store" Plays Upon Memory, Nostalgia, and Childhood". I Care If You Listen. Retrieved 2025-04-29.
- ^ Hanudel, Patrick (2025). "Arcade". American Record Guide. Vol. 88, no. 2. p. 133.
- ^ Jin, Hyeseon (2024). Harmonizing Ordinary Elements into Unconventional: Exploring the Musical Style of Korean Living Composer, Juri Seo (Doctor of Music). Indiana University.