Title: Contrapuntal Forms
Commission: 2017
Completed: 2019
Instrumentation: keyboard, percussion, clarinet, saxophone, violin, and cello
Premiere Location: October 15, 2019 in Taplin Auditorium, Princeton, NJ
Premiere Ensemble: Latitude 49
Notes:

Juri Seo is a composer and pianist based in Princeton, New Jersey. She seeks to write music that encompasses extreme contrast through compositions that are unified and fluid, yet complex. She merges many of the fascinating aspects of music from the past century—in particular its expanded timbral palette and unorthodox approach to structure—with a deep love of functional tonality, counterpoint, and classical form. With its fast-changing tempi and dynamics, her music explores the serious and the humorous, the lyrical and the violent, the tranquil and the obsessive. She hopes to create music that loves, that makes a positive change in the world—however small—through the people who are willing to listen.