Seung-Won Oh
Seung-Won Oh | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1969 (age 55–56) Seoul, South Korea |
| Alma mater | |
| Occupation | Composer |
| Employer | DePaul University |
| Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship (2010) |
| Academic background | |
| Thesis | Olivier Messiaen's composition techniques in Réveil des oiseaux (2005) |
| Doctoral advisor | Eric Chafe |
| Musical career | |
| Genres | Contemporary classical music |
Seung-Won Oh (Korean: 오승원; born 1969), also known as Seung-Ah Oh,[1] is a South Korean composer. She is a 2010 Guggenheim Fellow.
Biography
Oh was born in 1969 in Seoul.[2] She obtained her BA and MM from Ewha Womans University, as well as another MM from the Royal Conservatory of The Hague.[1] In addition to doctoral studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, she obtained her MA and PhD from Brandeis University;[1] her doctoral dissertation Olivier Messiaen's composition techniques in Réveil des oiseaux was supervised by Eric Chafe.[3]
The Plain Dealer said that her 2001 piece So-Ri I, during its premiere at the Aki Festival of New Music in Cleveland, "brought an Asian sensibility to meditative music made from the natural harmonics of the guitar ... in dialogue with the flute.[4] She was awarded two MacDowell Colony Fellowships, each in 2003 and 2009,[5] as well as a 2007 Goddard Lieberson Fellowship in Music.[6] She won the first-place and audience prizes at the 2005 Seoul International Competition for Composers, as well as the 2010 Toonzetters award for best contemporary music.[1]
She collaborated with artist Ji-Young Chae and opera singer Margriet van Reisen to create an installation art exhibition dedicated to Hwang Jini.[7] Regarding Lege Wieg/Boş Beşik, her 2010 co-production with Cilia Hogerzeil, Pieter Verstraete said that with Oh’s use of a small musical ensemble and even with her use of some Turkish makam elements, “the end result is stripped of any particular Turkish musical characteristics”[8] In 2010, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.[1]
Her work was performed by the Uzbekistan-based Omnibus Ensemble in 2011.[9] Her 2008 piece "Canonic Phase" was performed at the 2014 Tanglewood Music Festival; The Boston Globe said that it was “was more systematically exhaustive, rhythms and timbres combined and layered into larger, ritualistic patterns”.[10] She was part of the 2016 Gaudeamus Festival award jury.[11] Her piece Elegy in Me premiered at the 2024 String Quartet Biennial in Paris.[12]
She has also worked as assistant professor of composition at the DePaul University School of Music.[13]
References
- ^ a b c d e "Seung-Ah Oh". Guggenheim Fellowship. Retrieved May 6, 2025.
- ^ Bosch Requiem 2020 (PDF). Bosch Requiem. 2020. p. 9. Archived (PDF) from the original on May 6, 2025. Retrieved May 6, 2025.
- ^ Dissertation Abstracts International: The Humanities and Social Sciences A. 2005. p. 817.
- ^ "Artfully illuminating contemporary music". The Plain Dealer. October 13, 2001. p. 49 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Seung-Ah Oh – Artist". MacDowell. Archived from the original on May 6, 2025. Retrieved May 6, 2025.
- ^ "All Awards". American Academy of Arts and Letters. Retrieved May 6, 2025.
- ^ Embrechts, Annette (October 13, 2008). "Intrigerende Aziatische sfeer en zeer beheerste emoties". De Volkskrant. Retrieved May 6, 2025.
- ^ Verstraete, Pieter (2013). "TURKISH POST-MIGRANT 'OPERA' IN EUROPE: A SOCIO-HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE ON AURALITY". Themes in Theatre (7).
- ^ Lisack, Lucille (2017). "'Fabriquer' la musique contemporaine à Tachkent". L'Homme (221): 115–146. ISSN 0439-4216. JSTOR 26250590.
- ^ Guerrieri, Matthew (July 24, 2014). "Sound construction: Tanglewood Festival of Contemporary Music showcases the creative process". Boston Globe. p. G3.
- ^ "Two American Composers Among Five Chosen for Gaudeamus Shortlist – New Music USA". NewMusicBox. October 23, 2015. Retrieved May 6, 2025.
- ^ Tunbridge, Laura (February 16, 2024). "Four Play: A week-long celebration of the string quartet". Times Literary Supplement. No. 6307. p. 14. Retrieved May 6, 2025 – via Gale Academic OneFile.
- ^ "Alumni". www.brandeis.edu. Retrieved May 6, 2025.