Seoyoon is a first-year PhD student in Music Theory at Washington University in St. Louis. She is interested in music for wind instruments and tonal music.

Seoyoon was an active clarinetist performing professionally for over fifteen years, until the completion of her undergraduate studies. She then shifted her focus from performance to analysis and earned her master’s degree in Music Theory at Yonsei University. For her master’s thesis, she analyzed the first movement of Brahms’s Clarinet Sonata Op. 120/1 from Schenkerian perspective, which has a “ternary sonata-form” with a non-stereotypical scheme. She is planning to broaden her academic interests from German composers to French composers, and from clarinet repertoire to wind ensemble literature.