Dr. Soo Kyung Chung
Lecturer of Music Theory
Email: soochung@ou.edu
Office: Catlett Music Center 219
Office: Catlett Music Center 219
Soo Kyung Chung is a Korean-born musician who studied in Paris, Boston, and Cincinnati. She wrote a dissertation on “Large-scale Form in Chopin’s Four Ballades from Sonata Theory and Phrase-Rhythmic Perspectives.” She recently presented material from her dissertation, “Four-Rotation Sonata Form in Chopin’s First Ballade, op. 23,” at the European Music Analysis Conference and another paper, “Mixed Rhythms in Chopin’s Ballades and Scherzos,” at the Society for Music Theory. Her research interests include Sonata Theory, rhythm and meter (phrase rhythm), spatial representation, pedagogy (keyboard harmony and model composition), and performance & analysis.
- PhD (Music Theory): University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, 2022
- MM (Music Theory): New England Conservatory, 2012
- Diploma (Écriture): Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, 2006
