BIOGRAPHYHYERIM YOOHyerim Yoo, born in Seoul, 1990, started her music career as accompanist at the church. After graduating from Seoul Arts High School, she received tutelage in composition under Professor Shinuh Lee at the Seoul National University.Deeply interested in associating literature and her music, while “Remembrance (2012/2014)” was based on actual literary works- poems by George Byron and Herbert von Goethe. Through the composition, Hyerim was able to achieve a better glimpse of literary works and thus apply the idea to her graduation project “De casibus Virorum Illustrium (2013)” for ten players (flute, two clarinets, string quartet, and three percussionists) is derived from Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, is highly influenced by study with prof. Lee, which was performed at Seoul National University in November 2013. Currently enrolled as a postgrad composition student at the Royal Academy of Music in London, she is studying under Christopher Austin. She is still examining the relationship between literary works and music, and is working on a piece for the Crouch End Festival Choir, which performed in May. She had participated in Blossom Street Singers, Bristol Animation Festival, Trio Mirage, and other collaborative projects with various artists in London, U.K.