Seo Yoon Soyoona Kim
composer
composer
for piano · 2025 · 8'
for octet · 2024 · 9'
for vibraphone · 2023 · 8'
for trio · 2022 · 7'
for orchestra · 2021 · 6'
for string quartet · 2020 · 10'
Inspired by people who first observed and recorded the explosion of Supernova 1054, and the modern scientists who study its remnant, the Crab Nebula. A Chinese record from 1054 AD describes a sudden bright star visible in daylight for 23 days and at night for two years — observed by scholars in China, Iraq, and the Arizona region. SN1054 and the Crab Nebula tell us how we study, explore, and accumulate knowledge through generations. This music is a tribute to all our curiosities.
for orchestra · 2020 · 5'
for quintet · 2019 · 10'
opera · 2019 · 20'
In the Deep Cave : Music for string quartet with fixed media about the breastfeeding experience.
2025.10. Seo Yoon is now ABD at Peabody Institute of JHU after successfully passing all three qualification exams.
Seo Yoon Soyoona Kim writes music that listens—to the sparkle hidden in ordinary days, to stories forgotten in the shade, to the songs we're about to lose—and rekindles their light.
Highlights include three album releases—Hearing Stars, The Ocean's Cry, and What We Owe To Birds—produced in collaboration with the Space Telescope Science Center, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, and the composers' collective CNSNC; a performance of her opera Dear Father, which explores the longing for education of a Korean woman; a performance of her orchestra piece Rain, Thunder, Lightning at the Johns Hopkins University Inter Asian Cultural Expo; and a commission by the American Guild of Organists.
Seo Yoon is completing her doctorate in Music Composition at the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University while navigating the joys and challenges of early motherhood.