Young jin Jeon is a Korean
composer, theorist, pianist, and organist, currently living and working in Birmingham,
Alabama. While she has been in Korea and USA, she has won prizes and received
recognitions from the competitions, such as Youth Dong-A Newspaper Children’s
Song, the Gang-Won Art Song, the Pusan Percussion Ensemble, the Southeastern
Composers League, the Frederic Goossen, and IAWM 2014 Annual Concert Call for
Works. Her works have performed throughout the world, including Oregon Bach Festival
Composers Symposium, UPBEAT Summer Music Festival, Nief-Norf Summer Music
Festival, Wintergreen Summer Music Festival, Czech-American Summer Music
Institute, Alabama Contemporary Ensemble, Ohio State Composers’ Workshop,
Young-San Art Hall Young Composers Festival, and etc. She holds degrees from
the University of Alabama (D.M.A. in music composition and theory with secondary
concentration in musicology), Ohio State University (M.M. in music composition),
and Ewha Womans University (B.M. in music composition).