Seung-Won Oh

Seung-Won Oh, a native of Korea.Her music has been performed throughout Europe, North America and Asia, and transcends traditional boundaries.

The recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation at the Bellagio Center, the Goddard Lieberson Fellowship through the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Barlow Endowment for music composition, Oh is celebrated both in her home country and abroad: at the 3rd Seoul International Competition for Composers she received both first prize and the audience prize; in 2007 the third prize of the Lutoslawski Award in Poland; in 2010 an international jury awarded her the Toonzetters Prize, given yearly for the best contemporary music composed in the Netherlands.

Seung-Won Oh has created outstanding works such as the musical Words and Beyond: Hwang Jin-Yi and Mixtures II.Her recent work juxtaposes soloists or groups of instruments against an ensemble, creating a space for dramatic development. The conflict between the individual's will and the collective's.