University of Missouri-Kansas city

About

Soo Kyung Chung is an Instructor of Music Theory at the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory. Prior to her appointment at UMKC, she taught at the University of Oklahoma as a lecturer of Music Theory. She holds her PhD in Music Theory from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, an MM in Music Theory from the New England Conservatory of Music, and an advanced diploma from the Conservatoire National Supérieure de Musique et de Danse de Paris.
 
She wrote a dissertation on “Large-scale Form in Chopin’s Four Ballades from Sonata Theory and Phrase-Rhythmic Perspectives.” She 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. This latter paper is in preparation for publication in Music Theory Online. Her research interests include form (Sonata Theory), rhythm and meter (phrase rhythm), spatial representation, pedagogy (keyboard harmony and model composition), and performance & analysis.
 
For future research, she is interested in investigating phrase-rhythmic studies, not only in Chopin’s works, but also in those of 19th-century women composers such as Pauline Viardot, Teresa Carreño, and Marie Jaëlle and in those of 19th- and 20th-century composers such as Dvorák, Tchaikovsky, Satie, and Ravel. She will see how her newly expanded phrase-rhythmic types can illuminate other composers’ works.