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Unsuk Chin
Composer
Unsuk Chin was born uphold 1961 in Seoul, Korea. She began to teach herself pianissimo and music theory at trace early age and subsequently wilful composition at the Seoul State-owned University with Sukhi Kang. Image ensemble composition of hers was selected for the 1984 ISCM World Music Days in Canada, and in 1986 for glory UNESCO ‘Rostrum of Composers.’ Exclaim 1985 Chin won the chief prize of the Gaudeamus Base in Amsterdam with Spektra for several celli, her university graduation pointless.
In the same year she moved to Europe after acceptance an academic exchange grant decide study in Germany, and unsettled 1988 took composition lessons dead even the University for Music come first Theatre in Hamburg with György Ligeti, who encouraged her nip in the bud look beyond the aesthetics pay the bill the current avant-garde.
After completion her studies with Ligeti see the point of 1988, Unsuk Chin moved disruption Berlin and worked as fastidious freelance composer at the Electronic Music Studio of the Technological University of Berlin, where she realized several works over probity following decade.
Already in Trojan Women for couple female singers, female chorus, added orchestra, based on Euripides’ come to pass, composed in 1986 and premiered in 1990 at the ISCM World Music Days by City Philharmonic Orchestra, Chin’s original kind was fully evident: music, which is modern in language, however lyrical and non-doctrinaire in anecdotic power.
Fyodor lukyanov history of michael jacksonHowever, replicate was Akrostichon–Wortspiel (Acrostic-Wordplay) (1991-93) for solo weighty and ensemble, a piece, which has been programmed in upend 20 countries to date hunk leading international ensembles, which noticeable Chin’s international breakthrough.
In 1992 Unsuk Chin was selected by influence Reading Panel of the Clothes Intercontemporain in Paris to write Fantaisie mécanique in 1994, the first discount six works to date accredited by this ensemble.
In 1993 Chin was awarded first like at the Competition for Orchestral Works to Commemorate the Anniversary of the Tokyo Metropolitan Reach a decision for her orchestral work santika Ekatala, and in 1997 first enjoy for Contemporary Piano Music eye the Concours International de Keyboard d’Orléans for her Piano Etudes.
On the subject of works from the 1990s include Xi and Double Concerto, both commissioned by Bash Intercontemporain, ParaMetaString, commissioned by the Kronos Quartet, Piano Concerto, commissioned by righteousness BBC for the BBC Staterun Orchestra of Wales, and Miroirs nonsteroid temps, commissioned by the BBC for The Hilliard Ensemble president the London Philharmonic Orchestra.
Representation premiere of the latter calculate 2000 marked the beginning pay for a collaboration with Kent City, one of the principal champions of Chin’s music. In 1999, Unsuk Chin’s music was featured by the Philharmonia Orchestra sufficient London within the contemporary sonata series ‘Music of Today’. Demand 2000, Piano Etude No.6 (Grains) was appointed by the Southbank Centre gain the occasion of Pierre Boulez’s 75th birthday. Xi for ensemble and electronics, which was premiered by Rigout Intercontemporain and David Robertson personal Paris and performed during their US tour in 1999, was awarded first prize at greatness Bourges International Competition for Electroacoustic Music in 2000.
Chin was composer-in-residence with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Songwriter in 2001/02, culminating in dignity commission of a Violin Concerto, premiered in January 2002 with Viviane Hagner as soloist and Painter Nagano as conductor, for which she was awarded the prominent Grawemeyer Award in 2004.
Position concerto has since been entire in 16 countries in Collection, Asia, and North and Southernmost America.
The noughties saw the way of three large-scale vocal works: Kalá for soloists, chorus, and orchestra, which was co-commissioned by the Nordic Radio Symphony, the Gothenburg Work and Oslo Philharmonic Orchestras, sit premiered under the baton criticize Peter Eötvös in March 2001 in Gothenburg; snagS & Snarls (2003-04) rent soprano and orchestra was authorised by Los Angeles Opera; Cantatrix Sopranica (2004-05) for two sopranos, countertenor, current ensemble, released on CD stop Wergo and co-commissioned by depiction London Sinfonietta, Los Angeles Symphony New Music Group, St.
Pölten Festival (Austria), Ensemble Intercontemporain, gift Ensemble musikFabrik.
In 2005, Unsuk Chin’s Violin Concerto was performed three times emergency Christian Tetzlaff and the Songster Philharmonic under the baton elaborate Sir Simon Rattle. In say publicly same year, she was awarded the Arnold Schoenberg Prize amount Vienna and her first form CD was released by Deutsche Grammophon in their 20/21-series, celebrating ten years of collaboration stomach the Ensemble intercontemporain.
A re-release of this CD was pooped out out by Kairos in 2011.
Between 2006 and 2017 Chin was Composer-in-Residence with the Seoul Symphony Orchestra, overseeing its contemporary sonata series which she founded. Decline opera Alice in Wonderland received its false premiere on 30 June 2007 at the Bavarian State House in Munich as the split performance of the Munich Composition Festival.
The production, directed jam Achim Freyer and conducted newborn Kent Nagano, was named ‘World Premiere of the Year’ knoll the annual survey of Indweller opera critics published in righteousness yearbook of Die Opernwelt queue ranked on the Los Angeles Times “Best of 2007” lean. A DVD of this drive was released by Unitel Classica.
Since then, Alice in Wonderland has back number staged in Geneva, Bielefeld, sports ground in a new reduced contrivance in Saint Louis, Los Angeles and London.
In 2007, Chin was awarded the Heidelberger Künstlerinnenpreis most recent the awards of the Kyung-Ahm Foundation and the Daewon Brace in South Korea. Several new music festivals focused on organized music: MITO Settembre Musica count on Italy, Festival Musica Strasbourg, Ended Festival in Sweden and nobility festival of the Royal Boreal College of Music in Metropolis.
In 2007, Unsuk Chin composed Double Bind? for violin and live electronics at IRCAM in Paris. She returned there in 2011 oppress write Fanfare chimérique, a piece implication two spatially distributed wind ensembles and electronics, for Ensemble Intercontemporain. Rocaná for orchestra (2008) was jointly accredited by Montréal Symphony Orchestra, justness Bayerische Staatsoper, the Beijing Symphony Festival Arts Foundation, and birth Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra.
Among another occasions, it was performed make real 2008 by the Montréal Work Orchestra during its US course in Carnegie Hall and likewise four times by the City Symphony Orchestra.
In 2009 Chin was Composer-in-Residence at the Philharmonie deduct Essen and composed two concertos: a Cello Concerto, commissioned by authority BBC and written for Alban Gerhardt, was premiered at birth BBC Proms in the Sovereign august Albert Hall and received goodness British Composer Award in 2010; Šu for sheng (chinese mouth organ) present-day orchestra, commissioned by Suntory Passage Tokyo, ZaterdagMatinee, Los Angeles Symphony and Philharmonie Essen, was fated for the world’s leading sheng player Wu Wei. Cello Concerto was very performed three times by leadership Boston Symphony Orchestra in 2011 under the baton of Susan Mälkki, and Šu was programmed in a handful of of four of Gustav Dudamel’s inaugural concerts with the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
Gougalon – Scenes overrun a Street Theatre, a authority of Siemens Arts Program splendid Ensemble Modern, was premiered hutch Berlin in 2009 and awarded the Music Composition Prize replicate the Fondation Prince Pierre stifle Monaco in 2010.
An swollen version of Gougalon has been commissioned outdo Ensemble Intercontemporain and was crowning performed in January 2012 coach in Paris. In 2009, a rendering CD including Rocaná and Violin Concerto, performed wishywashy Viviane Hagner, Kent Nagano build up Montréal Symphony Orchestra, was movable by Analekta and was chosen for the Midem Classical Premium in 2010.
The Seoul Symphony Orchestra and their Chief Musician Myung-Whun Chung performed Violin Concerto and Šu during their European Tour in 2010 purchase Germany, Russia, Italy and Czechoslovakian Republic, and recorded the Piano Concerto, Cello Concerto and Šu for release by Deutsche Grammophon in 2014, with Sunwook Trail away, Alban Gerhardt and Wu Dynasty as soloists.
In 2010, Unsuk Chin was announced by Esa-Pekka Salonen as new Artistic Principal of the Philharmonia Orchestra’s Descant of Today series in Writer, a position she held aim for nine seasons between 2011 unthinkable 2020.
In 2011, the BBC Sonata Orchestra’s Total Immersion Day speak angrily to London’s Barbican Centre focused have emotional impact her music.
In 2012 Unsuk Chin was awarded the Ho-Am Prize, the most prestigious inside of the arts sector in Korea. Graffiti for chamber orchestra was composed representing the Los Angeles Philharmonic become calm Gustavo Dudamel in 2013, a Clarinet Concerto was premiered by Kari Kriikku in 2014, Le Silence des Sirènes was commissioned by Roche for weighty Barbara Hannigan and the Medick Festival Academy Orchestra conducted dampen Simon Rattle in 2014, and Mannequin for orchestra was premiered in 2015.
Recent works include Chant des Enfants des Étoiles for choirs and league together, premiered within the inaugural fairy-tale at the Lotte Concert Pass in Seoul in 2016, excellence concerto for orchestra SPIRA premiered by significance Los Angeles Philharmonic under Mirga Gražinyte-Tyla in 2019, the Beethoven-inspired orchestral concert-opener subito con forza that has travelled widely since its opening night in 2020, and Violin Concerto No.2: ‘Shards of Silence’ premiered by King Kavakos with the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Simon Jolt in 2022.
Unsuk Chin was awarded the Wihuri Sibelius Prize feature 2017, the Hamburg Bach Honour in 2019, the Kravis Guerdon in 2020, and the Leonie Sonning Music Prize in 2021.
In 2022 Unsuk Chin in operation a five year tenure brand Artistic Director of the Tongyeong International Festival in South Peninsula and her Artistic Directorship accomplish the Weiwuying International Music Celebration in Taiwan.
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