Saemi Jeong, born in 1992 in Suwon (South Korea), has lived in Berlin since 2018. After completing her Master’s degree in Composition and Electronic Music at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin, she is currently studying piano in the Artistic and Pedagogical Training programme at the Universität der Künste Berlin.

At the centre of her work is the engagement with subjective and bodily perception. In the field of electronic and spatial music, she strives to develop a practice in which composition, sonic disposition, technical realisation, and performative presence appear as interlocking dimensions of an artistic process. Also formative for her working method is the equal collaboration with artists from different disciplines, exemplified in the collaboration with choreographer Elvan Tekin (including XÊR, 2024).

She has worked, with ensemble mosaik, Ensemble Lachrymae, Ensemble Compas, and others, as well as within the framework of Kollektiv Unruhe, of which she is a founding member. In Seoul she initiated the concert series Series of Combined Music, which was realised, among other places, at Ilshin Hall. Her works were presented, for example, at Klangwerkstatt Berlin, Neuköllner Originaltöne, NODES at the Akademie der Künste Berlin, at the ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medien Karlsruhe, at Fabbrica del Vapore in Milan, and at Elbphilharmonie Hamburg. For her work she received the Excellence Award at the ACL Korea Newcomer Concours (2020).