Seulki 'Susie' Yoo
- Lecturer, Coordinator of Class Piano
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Collaboration
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Ensemble
217 Music Building 1
- Email syoo@psu.edu
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Biography
Seulki Susie Yoo, D.M.A., is a pianist, scholar, and educator who currently serves as a Lecturer at Penn State University, where she coordinates the Class Piano program. A winner and finalist in numerous international competitions, including the Delia Steinberg International Competition, Brahms International Competition, Washington International Piano Festival Competition, Sofia and Carlo "Arthur Rubinstein" Competition, and Concert Artist International, Yoo has performed at venues including Carnegie Weill Hall, the Kennedy Center's REACH, Wiener Saal in Salzburg, Congress Center Pörtschach in Austria, and Sejong Art Center in Seoul.
As a scholar-performer, Yoo's research on Paul Dukas and French fin-de-siècle music has been presented at conferences of the College Music Society, Society for Music Theory, American Musicological Society, and Music Teachers National Association. She has three publications in College Music Symposium exploring Dukas's piano music, French-Jewish identity, and musical legacy. Her recording Paul Dukas: Complete Piano Works, released by the UK-based Sheva Collection, is available internationally.
Yoo's other scholarly and pedagogical interests include piano technique and performance practice, Chopin's Études, and the intersections of music with psychology and neuroscience. Her invited presentations have explored editorial traditions in Chopin's Études, neuroplasticity in piano playing, and relationships among nineteenth-century musicology, neurology, and psychology.
An active educator and adjudicator, Yoo serves as Conference Chair for the Pennsylvania Music Teachers Association and has adjudicated national and international competitions. She received Teacher Recognition from the Clara Schumann International Competition, and her teaching at Penn State was nominated for the Harold F. Martin Graduate Assistant Outstanding Teaching Award. She is also the founder and director of the Paul Dukas Institute.
Yoo holds a D.M.A. and M.A. from Penn State University, an A.D. from the Peabody Conservatory, and M.M./A.D. and B.M. degrees from Korea National University of Arts. She is a member of the academic honor society Pi Kappa Lambda