Jeonghyeon Joo is a haegeum performer and composer based in Los Angeles and Seoul. Her practice includes performance, composition, improvisation, artistic research, collaboration, writing, and teaching. She explores the physical, social, cultural, and political relationship between performer and instrument, frequently collaborating with filmmakers, dancers, composers, and performance artists. Her original performance projects have been supported and presented by the Arts Council Korea and the Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture and have received the Presidential Award of Korea. Joo holds a Doctor of Musical Arts from the California Institute of the Arts and is currently an Assistant Professor at the School of Performing Arts in the Seoul Institute of the Arts in South Korea and a Program Director at CultureHub.