Seulki Susie Yoo, D.M.A., aspires to build a diverse musical career. As a scholar-artist, 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), the Society for Music Theory (Utah), and the American Musicological Society (JSMSG). Particularly, Seulki’s study of the French Fin-de-siècle period and composers was warmly received and reviewed among colleagues. Her publications Rediscovering the Legacy: Le Tombeau de Paul Dukas (1936) (Vol 64. No.2) and A Musico-Sociological Study of Paul Dukas’s French-Jewish Identity Manifested in the Rameau Variations (Vol 63, No.2) at the College Music Society Symposium were positively critiqued.

Seulki is 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. She has performed solo and in ensembles at various venues such as 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), Bucksbaum Music School (Aspen, US), Harvard University (online), Southern Connecticut State University, Angelo State University, Wichita State University, Kutztown University, and Penn State University. As a chamber musician, she collaborated with acclaimed musicians such as Joel Quarrington (Professor at the Oxford Arts Centre, the Conservatoire de Musique de Montréal, the Royal Academy of Music in London), Dominik Wagner (Professor at the University of Music Würzburg), and Mikyung Sung, and performed with the director of Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Marin Alsop.

As an educator, Seulki currently serves as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Piano and Lecturer of Collaborative piano at Penn State University, where her teaching was nominated for the Harold F. Martin GA Outstanding Teaching Award. Seulki also serves as the Conference Chair at Pennsylvania Music Teachers Association and received the Teacher Recognition from Clara Schumann International Competition.

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.