Praised as ‘Oh, a name to remember’ (De Volkskrant, 2005) Seung-Won Oh (1969), a native of South Korea, is rapidly establishing her name as a composer with an individual voice. She is the recipient of numerous prestigious fellowships and awards, and has received commissions from ensembles and festivals including the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (UK), Transit Festival (BE), Alicante Contemporary Music Festival (SP) the festival of the Tanglewood Music Centre (US), Aspen Music Festival (US) and Ultima Festival (NO) among others.

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Music critic Mirjam Zegers writes, "Oh connects East and West, vibrant motion and stillness, pure sound and ritual theatre, stratified structures and transparency.” Her music has been further described as being “...exciting... refined and sharply cut” (De Volkskrant), and the Cleveland Plain Dealers said, she “brought Asian sensitivity and meditation”. In her works for music theatre, a unique category within her output, Oh searches for non-western topics while striving to optimize the balance between western techniques and non-western concepts.

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[Oh studied at Ewha Womans University (BA, MM), the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (doctoral program), Brandeis University (MFA, PhD) and The Royal Conservatoire in The Hague (MM).] Previously she taught at Brandeis University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Florida at Gainesville, and Oberlin Conservatory of Music. Seung-Won Oh is currently Assistant Professor Composition at DePaul University in Chicago, USA.