Soo Yeon Lyuh
Past Events
HARMONIES OF THE SEASON with Pacific Boychoir Academy
December 8th, 3 pm
St. Mary's College, Moraga
December 15th, 6 pm
Cathedral of Christ the Light, Oakland
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PRESERVATION THROUGH IMPROVISATION: The Korean Haegeum
January 15, 7 pm
La Jolla Community Center, San Diego, CA
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NOTES FROM KOREA with Oakland Symphony
November 15, 8 pm
Paramount Theatre
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DEDICATION: A KOREAN BUDDHIST MASTERPIECE
Featuring Kirsten Lies-Warfield
October 13, 2 pm and 4pm
Sackler Gallery B1 Lobby, Washington DC
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FREER SACKLER CONCERT with Ashley Bathgate
October 11, 7:30 PM
Freer Gallery of Art, Washington DC
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SOO YEON LYUH AND ASHLEY BATHGATE
AT TWIGGS GALLERY
Avaloch Farm Music Institute
Resident Artist with Cellist Ashley Bathgate
August 22
Boscawen, NH
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BANG ON A CAN LOUD WEEKEND 2019
*Premiere Concert: Dudŭrim by Soo Yeon Lyuh
August 2-4
Mass MoCA
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NATIONAL GUGAK CENTER INTERNATIONAL GUGAK WORKSHOP
Teaching Haegum
June 24-July 5
Seoul, South Korea
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BENEFIT CONCERT SUPPORTING BAY AREA REFUGEE WOMEN
Ensemble Ari and Soo Yeon Lyuh
May 3rd, 2019 7:30 pm
Zion Church, 495 Ninth Ave San Francisco
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CULTURE KIN-REAL VOCAL STRING QUARTET
May 25th, 8 pm
YBCA, 701 Mission St, San Francisco
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NEW ASIA CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY
June 7
The DiMenna Center, Manhattan, NY
THE KOREAN AMERICAN SCHOLARSHIP
FOUNDATION 50th ANNIVERSARY
April 13th 6 pm
Oxford Palace Hotel, Los Angeles
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APRIL IN SANTA CRUZ FESTIVAL
Performing Michael Gordon's "Light is Calling"
April 26th 7:30 pm
Music Center Recital Hall, UC Santa Cruz
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IMPROVISATION WITH THOMAS BUCKNER, JAMES ILGENFRITZ AND LISA MEZZACAPPA
March 12, 2019, 8 pm
CNMAT, Berkeley CA
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KRONOS QUARTET: FIFTY FOR THE FUTURE
January 25, 2019
Zellerbach Hall, Berkeley CA
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SANTA CRUZ COUNTY YOUTH SYMPHONY
November 18, 3 pm
UC Santa Cruz Recital Hall
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CHRIS BROWN AND SOO YEON LYUH
November 1, 8 pm
The Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco
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DMZ PEACE TELEMATICS CONCERT
October 27, 2 am
CCRMA, Stanford, CA
Other locations:
South Korea, DMZ, 6 pm local time
Berlin, 11 am local time
RECORDING
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UC DAVIS NOON CONCERT
October 25, 12 noon
Recital Hall, Ann E. Pitzer Center
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KAISER, LYUH, SORDAHL, ROBIDOUX
September 14, 8 PM
Mills College Ensemble Room
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Haegeum Meets Electronics-with Carl Stone
September 2nd, 2018 8 pm
CNMAT, Berkeley
1750 Arch St
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(R)evolution: Resonant Bodies
July 30-August 4, 2018 (Official Dates/Times TBA)
BANFF Canada
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KRONOS QUARTET & SOO YEON LYUH
June 28, 2018, 7 PM
92Y (1395 Lexington Ave, Manhattan, NY)
Pre-performance Q&A at 7 PM with Soo Yeon Lyuh
“Its adventurous, undecorous approach to programming and cross-cultural collaborations planted the seed for a new generation of innovative string quartets... as well as inspired individual artists to reimagine musical parameters.” ---The New York Times
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CELEBRATING ASIAN CULTURAL HERITAGE MONTH
May 5, 2018, 2:00pm ~ 3:30pm
Koret Auditorium Main Library
100 Larkin St. SF CA 94102
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UC BERKELEY COMPOSERS with Myra Melford
May 3, 2018 8 PM
Center for New Music
55 Taylor St San Francisco, CA
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CONTEMPORARY PERFORMANCE ENSEMBLE CONCERT
April 25, 2018 8 PM
Littlefield Concert Hall
5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland, CA
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PACIFIC EXCHANGE
April 15, 2018 4 PM
Nohspace (Theater of Yugen)
2840 Mariposa Street San Francisco, CA (MAP)
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STUDIO GRAND
April 17, 2018 9:30 PM
3234 Grand Ave Oakland, CA
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Wadada Leo Smith: Create Festival
The Lab (San Francisco)
December 16, 2017, 8 PM
with Wadada Leo Smith, William Winant, and Motoko Honda
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20th Annual Music For People & Thingamajigs Festival
The Oakland Museum of California
December 15, 2017, 5 PM
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Ensemble Mise-en
The Cell (Manhattan)
December 6, 2017
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Pacific Rim Festival
October 26-28, 2017
UC Santa Cruz Music Hall
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National Day of Korea Commemorative Concert
September 27, 2017
Herbst Theatre of San Francisco, CA
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New Traditions (Korean Cultural Week Launch)
September 23, 2017
Mills College Art Museum, Oakland CA
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UC Berkeley Symphony Orchestra Spain Tour, 2017
5/28 Granada
5/30 Valencia
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"Yessori" with Kronos Quartet, June 8, 2017, LACMA
Los Angeles, CA
Original composition written and performed by Soo Yeon Lyuh with Kronos Quartet.
Composed for Kronos' "Fifty for the Future" program
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Ahn, Elgar, Shostakovich, May 5-6, 2017, UC Berkeley Symphony
Berkeley, CA
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Yessori (Sound of the Past), February 2-4, 2017, Kronos Festival
SFJAZZ Center, San Francisco, CA
“Yessori” means “Sound from the Past” in Korean. When I first played haegeum for David Harrington he told me it has a very ancient sound, and commissioned me to write a piece that explores aspects of Korean music.
The first time I heard Korean traditional music, the pitch relationships and fluid nature of the rhythmic cycles felt chaotic, as I had initially studied western music. However, over the past two decades of playing haegeum, I came to love these unique qualities and am excited to share them through “Yessori.”
My compositional process began with improvisations on the haegeum in the style of traditional Korean music. I then adapted the distinctive techniques, such as vibrato and rhythmic articulations, for string quartet.