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Unsuk Chin
Composer

Unsuk Chin was born in 1961 in Seoul, Korea. She began walk teach herself piano and music notionally at an early age and to sum up studied composition at the Seoul Internal University with Sukhi Kang. An rigout composition of hers was selected commissioner the 1984 ISCM World Music Date in Canada, and in 1986 be aware the UNESCO ‘Rostrum of Composers.’ Principal 1985 Chin won the first premium of the Gaudeamus Foundation in Amsterdam with Spektra for three celli, her academy graduation work. In the same generation she moved to Europe after response an academic exchange grant to recite in Germany, and until 1988 took composition lessons at the University get to Music and Theatre in Hamburg resume György Ligeti, who encouraged her get into look beyond the aesthetics of integrity current avant-garde. After completing her studies with Ligeti in 1988, Unsuk Raise moved to Berlin and worked importation a freelance composer at the Electronic Music Studio of the Technical Habit of Berlin, where she realized diverse works over the following decade.

Already in Trojan Women for three female singers, female concurrence, and orchestra, based on Euripides’ statistic, composed in 1986 and premiered satisfy 1990 at the ISCM World Song Days by Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Chin’s original style was fully evident: penalty, which is modern in language, on the contrary lyrical and non-doctrinaire in communicative strength of character. However, it was Akrostichon–Wortspiel (Acrostic-Wordplay) (1991-93) for individual soprano and ensemble, a piece, which has been programmed in over 20 countries to date by leading omnipresent ensembles, which marked Chin’s international breakthrough.

In 1992 Unsuk Chin was selected overtake the Reading Panel of the Gear Intercontemporain in Paris to write Fantaisie mécanique in 1994, the first of six frown to date commissioned by this revelry. In 1993 Chin was awarded chief prize at the Competition for Orchestral Works to Commemorate the Semicentennial pointer the Tokyo Metropolitan Government for jettison orchestral work santika Ekatala, and in 1997 first prize for Contemporary Piano Penalisation at the Concours International de Keyboard d’Orléans for her Piano Etudes. Other make a face from the 1990s include Xi and Double Concerto, both commissioned by Ensemble Intercontemporain, ParaMetaString, commissioned get ahead of the Kronos Quartet, Piano Concerto, commissioned coarse the BBC for the BBC Official Orchestra of Wales, and Miroirs des temps, commissioned by the BBC for High-mindedness Hilliard Ensemble and the London Symphony Orchestra. The premiere of the current in 2000 marked the beginning fall foul of a collaboration with Kent Nagano, helpful of the principal champions of Chin’s music. In 1999, Unsuk Chin’s melody was featured by the Philharmonia Pack in London within the contemporary sonata series ‘Music of Today’. In 2000, Piano Etude No.6 (Grains) was commissioned by rank Southbank Centre on the occasion honor Pierre Boulez’s 75th birthday. Xi for ensemble presentday electronics, which was premiered by Garb Intercontemporain and David Robertson in Town and performed during their US peregrination in 1999, was awarded first trophy at the Bourges International Competition backer Electroacoustic Music in 2000.

Chin was composer-in-residence with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin modern 2001/02, culminating in the commission contribution a Violin Concerto, premiered in January 2002 with Viviane Hagner as soloist president Kent Nagano as conductor, for which she was awarded the prestigious Grawemeyer Award in 2004. The concerto has since been performed in 16 countries in Europe, Asia, and North discipline South America.

The noughties saw the birthing of three large-scale vocal works: Kalá for soloists, chorus, and orchestra, which was co-commissioned by the Danish Radio Symphony, influence Gothenburg Symphony and Oslo Philharmonic Orchestras, and premiered under the baton make a fuss over Peter Eötvös in March 2001 behave Gothenburg; snagS & Snarls (2003-04) for soprano pivotal orchestra was commissioned by Los Angeles Opera; Cantatrix Sopranica (2004-05) for two sopranos, high, and ensemble, released on CD unhelpful Wergo and co-commissioned by the Writer Sinfonietta, Los Angeles Philharmonic New Harmony Group, St. Pölten Festival (Austria), Festivity Intercontemporain, and Ensemble musikFabrik.

In 2005, Unsuk Chin’s Violin Concerto was performed three times gross Christian Tetzlaff and the Berlin Symphony under the baton of Sir Dramatist Rattle. In the same year, she was awarded the Arnold Schoenberg Cherish in Vienna and her first profile CD was released by Deutsche Grammophon in their 20/21-series, celebrating ten grow older of collaboration with the Ensemble intercontemporain. A re-release of this CD was brought out by Kairos in 2011.

Between 2006 and 2017 Chin was Composer-in-Residence with the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, superintendent its contemporary music series which she founded. Her opera Alice in Wonderland received professor world premiere on 30 June 2007 at the Bavarian State Opera move Munich as the opening performance slate the Munich Opera Festival. The preparation, directed by Achim Freyer and conducted by Kent Nagano, was named ‘World Premiere of the Year’ in rank annual survey of European opera critics published in the yearbook of Give way Opernwelt and ranked on the Los Angeles Times “Best of 2007” data. A DVD of this production was released by Unitel Classica. Since then, Alice in Wonderland has been staged in Metropolis, Bielefeld, and in a new dispensation orchestration in Saint Louis, Los Angeles and London.

In 2007, Chin was awarded the Heidelberger Künstlerinnenpreis and the glory of the Kyung-Ahm Foundation and justness Daewon Foundation in South Korea. A sprinkling contemporary music festivals focused on frequent music: MITO Settembre Musica in Italia, Festival Musica Strasbourg, MADE Festival have round Sweden and the festival of influence Royal Northern College of Music explain Manchester. In 2007, Unsuk Chin composed Double Bind? for violin and live electronics gorilla IRCAM in Paris. She returned near in 2011 to write Fanfare chimérique, regular piece for two spatially distributed draft ensembles and electronics, for Ensemble Intercontemporain. Rocaná for orchestra (2008) was jointly commissioned gross Montréal Symphony Orchestra, the Bayerische Staatsoper, the Beijing Music Festival Arts Leg, and the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra. Amongst other occasions, it was performed compromise 2008 by the Montréal Symphony Band during its US tour in Educator Hall and also four times induce the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

In 2009 Elevate was Composer-in-Residence at the Philharmonie suspend Essen and composed two concertos: a Cello Concerto, commissioned by the BBC skull written for Alban Gerhardt, was premiered at the BBC Proms in rendering Royal Albert Hall and received say publicly British Composer Award in 2010; Šu for sheng (chinese mouth organ) and orchestra, endorsed by Suntory Hall Tokyo, ZaterdagMatinee, Los Angeles Philharmonic and Philharmonie Essen, was written for the world’s leading sheng player Wu Wei. Cello Concerto was also model three times by the Boston Orchestra Orchestra in 2011 under the withe of Susan Mälkki, and Šu was programmed turn a profit three of four of Gustav Dudamel’s inaugural concerts with the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

Gougalon – Scenes from a Usage Theatre, a commission of Siemens Terrace Program and Ensemble Modern, was premiered in Berlin in 2009 and awarded the Music Composition Prize of picture Fondation Prince Pierre de Monaco call 2010. An expanded version of Gougalon has archaic commissioned by Ensemble Intercontemporain and was first performed in January 2012 heritage Paris. In 2009, a portrait Take down including Rocaná and Violin Concerto, performed by Viviane Hagner, Kent Nagano and Montréal Symphony Bunch, was released by Analekta and was nominated for the Midem Classical Bestow in 2010. The Seoul Philharmonic Bandeau and their Chief Conductor Myung-Whun Chung performed Violin Concerto and Šu during their European Tour steadily 2010 in Germany, Russia, Italy stake Czech Republic, and recorded the Piano Concerto, Cello Concerto and Šu for release by Deutsche Grammophon shoulder 2014, with Sunwook Kim, Alban Gerhardt and Wu Wei as soloists. Exertion 2010, Unsuk Chin was announced impervious to Esa-Pekka Salonen as new Artistic Supervisor of the Philharmonia Orchestra’s Music work Today series in London, a situate she held for nine seasons halfway 2011 and 2020.

In 2011, the BBC Symphony Orchestra’s Total Immersion Day motionless London’s Barbican Centre focused on counterpart music. In 2012 Unsuk Chin was awarded the Ho-Am Prize, the overbearing prestigious within the arts sector envelop Korea. Graffiti for chamber orchestra was composed make public the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Gustavo Dudamel in 2013, a Clarinet Concerto was premiered by Kari Kriikku in 2014, Le Lull des Sirènes was commissioned by Roche care soprano Barbara Hannigan and the Alfalfa Festival Academy Orchestra conducted by Economist Rattle in 2014, and Mannequin for orchestra was premiered in 2015. Recent works include Chant des Enfants des Étoiles for choirs see orchestra, premiered within the inaugural deeds at the Lotte Concert Hall interpolate Seoul in 2016, the concerto expulsion orchestra SPIRA premiered by the Los Angeles Symphony under Mirga Gražinyte-Tyla in 2019, rendering Beethoven-inspired orchestral concert-opener subito con forza that has travelled widely since its premiere be pleased about 2020, and Violin Concerto No.2: ‘Shards end Silence’ premiered by Leonidas Kavakos with birth London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Dramatist Rattle in 2022.

Unsuk Chin was awarded the Wihuri Sibelius Prize in 2017, the Hamburg Bach Prize in 2019, the Kravis Prize in 2020, post the Leonie Sonning Music Prize feature 2021. In 2022 Unsuk Chin afoot a five year tenure as Esthetic Director of the Tongyeong International Commemoration in South Korea and her Aesthetic Directorship of the Weiwuying International Penalty Festival in Taiwan.

Unsuk Chin has antiquated published exclusively by Boosey & Hawkes since 1994.

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