Jeonghyeon Joo
composer | haegeum performer
She has received the Emerging Artist Award from the National Academy of Arts of the Republic of Korea (2024) and the Presidential Award of Korea (2012), and her recent projects have been supported by Arts Council Korea, Sejong Center, Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, and California Institute of the Arts, among others. As a soloist, she has premiered many contemporary works written for her, including a haegeum concerto recently premiered with Ensemble Modern.
Her work has been presented across a wide range of artistic and academic contexts. She has frequently given lectures and presented her works at institutions across North America and Asia, including UCLA, UC Berkeley, CalArts, UC Riverside, Florida International University, San Francisco State University, Sejong Center, Seoul National University, Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music, Jakarta Institute of Arts, and Philosophical Research Center, and local experimental music venues in Los Angeles such as 2220 Arts + Archives, Oracle Egg, Human Resources, and Coaxial. Her writings can be found in the journal, Korean Contemporary Composers and Compositions, and in the program books for The Art of Bowing and EXERCISE, her large-scale performance projects.
She received a Doctor of Musical Arts from the California Institute of the Arts (CA, United States) and earned a Master of Arts and Bachelor of Music from Seoul National University (Seoul, South Korea). She is currently an Assistant Professor at the School of Performing Arts at the Seoul Institute of the Arts and serves as a Director at CultureHub LA.