ABOUT JENNI

Korean violist Jenni Seo is an immersive and versatile soloist, chamber and orchestral musician who has performed extensively with international artists all over the United States in prestigious venues such as Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Hahn Hall, Granada Theater, Walt Disney Hall, Loberto Theater, Van Wezel Hall for the Performing Arts, the Sarasota Opera House, and many more. The winner of the 2011 ASTA National Solo Competition, Seo is the recipient of the Beatrice Scacher-Myers Scholarship, the C.V. Starr Scholarship, and the Juilliard Alumni Scholarship. A recent alumna of the Music Academy of the West, Seo is also a returning artist of the Perlman Music Program Summer School, Chamber Music Workshop, and its traveling residencies to Stowe and Sarasota for over the past six years, where she has been coached by world-renowned chamber musicians musicians such as Merry Peckham, Donald Weilerstein, Roger Tapping, as well as additional members of the Cleveland, Takacs, and Juilliard String Quartets.

Seo’s extensive orchestral commitment has earned her leadership positions in the Pacific Symphony Youth Orchestra, the Symphony Orchestra of the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts, the Colburn Chamber Orchestra, and the American Youth Symphony Orchestra. She has worked under influential conductors such as Alan Gilbert, Emmanuel Villaume, Itzhak Perlman, Larry Rachleff, Leonard Slatkin, Jeffrey Milarsky, Michael Tilson Thomas, James DePriest, Nicholas McGegan, Osmo Vanska, Christoph von Dohnanyi, and James Gaffigan. Seo is currently a member of the Juilliard Orchestra.

The former student of Heidi Castleman, Steven Tenenbom, and Donald McInnes, Seo has participated in masterclasses under Jeffrey Irvine, Thomas Riebl, Karen Dreyfus, Victoria Chang, Hsin-Yun Huang, Misha Amory, and Roger Tapping, and received additional instruction from pedagogues Sylvia Rosenberg and Robert Vernon. In addition to performance, she is passionate about teaching and has worked under the direction of Susan Pascale, creator of the pascale method, to become a certified instructor of the system to introduce instrumental learning to young children. Seo is currently a graduate student of The Juilliard School under the tutelage of Cynthia Phelps, the current principal violist of the New York Philharmonic.