SEUNG-AH OH 1970

Seung-Ah Oh (composer 1970-) South Korean composer, now resident in the Netherlands and the USA, of mostly chamber and vocal works that have been performed in Asia, Europe and elsewhere. Ms. Oh studied composition with Doo-young Sung at Ewha Womans University in Seoul from 1990–96, where she earned her BA and MMus. She then studied electronic music with Scott Wyatt at the

University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1996–97 and studied composition with Martin Boykan, Eric Chasalow, John Melby, David Rakowski, and Yehudi Wyner at Brandeis University from 1997–2004, where she earned her PhD. She also studied composition with Louis Andriessen at the Koninklijk Conservatorium in Den Haag from 2001–03. Among her honours are a residency at the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire (2003) and the Buma Toonzetters Prijs (2010, for JungGa). Her music has been performed in Austria, Belgium, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, South Korea, Spain, and the USA.

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