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Jeonghyeon Joo
Jeonghyeon Joo is an award-winning haegeum performer, composer, improviser, and educator who is an ardent advocate for new and experimental music. Joo draws narrative through an exploration of a somatic, corporeal relationship between instrument and body, frequently collaborating with filmmakers, dancers, visual artists, and composers. Her work also investigates social and cultural questions arising from her personal practice and training in haegeum performance.
As a unique experimental haegeum performer/composer, she has been selected as one of the Pioneering Artists of the Next Generation by the Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture and Arts Council Korea. Prior to pursuing her artistic career as a composer, she mastered classical and folk repertoires of traditional Korean music and won prestigious awards for her outstanding achievements in haegeum performance, including the Presidential Award of Korea, First Prize at the KBS Korean Music Competition, Grand Prize (Award from Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism) at Jeonju-daesaseup Traditional Music Competition, and Silver Prize at Dong-A Korean Music Competition.
Her recent large-scale performance projects were supported by the Arts Council Korea and Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture. As an avid teaching artist, Joo also has frequently given lectures and presented her works at notable conferences and institutions such as the International Computer Music Conference, New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, Composition in Asia International Symposium, UCLA, UC Berkeley, UC Riverside, San Francisco State University, San Diego State University, Seoul National University, Philosophical Research Center, and Korean Cultural Center Los Angeles.
She received her Master of Arts and Bachelor of Music from Seoul National University and a Doctor of Musical Arts from the California Institute of the Arts. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Intercultural Arts at the Seoul Institute of the Arts and serves as a Program Director at CultureHub.
