As a winner and finalist of multiple international competitions, including the Sofia and Carlo “Arthur Rubinstein” Competition, the World Piano Teachers Association International Competition, Puigcerdà International Festival Competition, Concert Artist International, the Delia Steinberg International Competition and the Brahms International Competition, Seulki has been performing solo and in ensemble at various venues. She has performed in Studzinsky Hall (Brunswick, USA), Wiener Saal (Salzburg, Austria), Congress Center Pörtschach (Pörtschach, Austria), Palau de la Música Catalana (Barcelona, Spain), Museu Cerda (Puigcerdà, Spain), RWTH Aachen University (Aachen, Germany), Sejong Art Center (Seoul, Korea), KNUA Hall (Seoul, Korea), Act City Hamamatsu Concert Hall (Hamamatsu, Japan), Brodbeck Music Hall (Hood College, US), Friedberg Hall (Peabody Conservatory, US), Trachte Music Center (Lycoming College, US), Harvard University (online), Southern Connecticut State University, Angelo State University, Wichita State University, Kutztown University, and Penn State University. As a chamber musician, Seulki has been actively performing with Penn State School of Music faculty members at Rhapsody Series (2024), Double Reeds Day (2024), Bass Day (2023, 2024), and Penn’s Woods Festival (2022), and collaborated with current and previous principals and assistant principals at Washington National Opera, KBS Symphony Orchestra, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, and performed with the director of Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Marin Alsop. She recently participated in Aspen Music Festival and School as a collaborative pianist Fellow in 2024 Summer.
Seulki is thrilled to share that she will be performing at the Carnegie Weill Hall (2025) and will release her recording album “Paul Dukas Entire Piano Collection” through the Sheva Collection Label in the UK later this year.
Seulki approaches pedagogy with passion and respect. She is a Conference Chair at Pennsylvania Music Teachers Association, and received the Teacher Recognition at Clara Schumann International Competition, and her pedagogy was nominated for the Harold F. Martin GA Outstanding Teaching Award at Penn State University. Her students at Penn State have evaluated her teaching as “the most positive and optimistic class I’ve had in a long time” and “a great instructor who is attentive to the needs of her students”. Seulki’s students have also achieved noteworthy success, winning prizes at Manhattan International Competition, London International Competition, and Mozart International Competition.
Seulki was recently appointed as a lecturer in collaborative piano at Penn State University. Seulki holds a D.M.A. and M.A. from Penn State University, an A.D. from Peabody Conservatory, and M.M./A.D. and B.M. from Korea National University of Arts. She is a member of the academic honor society Pi Kappa Lambda.
August 2024
Seulki Susie Yoo, D.M.A., aspires to build a diverse musical career. Seulki has been dedicated to popularizing Paul Dukas’s piano repertoire at numerous annual conferences in the United States, including the Music Teachers National Association (Pennsylvania), the College Music Society (Texas, Connecticut, Kansas, Florida), and the Society for Music Theory (Utah), American Musicological Society (JSMSG). Particularly, Seulki’s study of French Fin-de-siècle period and composers was warmly received and reviewed among colleagues. Her publication of A Musico-Sociological Study of Paul Dukas’s French-Jewish Identity Manifested in the Rameau Variations at the College Music Society Symposium (Vol 63, No.2) was positively critiqued. (review article by Dr. Diana Shapiro) As an advocate for classical musicians’ well-being, Seulki also presented her psychoanalytic study on classical musicians’ mental health at the 2023 College Music Society National Annual Conference (lecture available here).
