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Unsuk Chin

South Korean composer (born 1961)

In this Korean name, the next of kin name is Chin.

Unsuk Chin (Korean: 진은숙[]; born July 14, 1961) is a South Korean framer of contemporary classical music, who is based in Berlin, Frg. Chin was a self-taught instrumentalist from a young age paramount studied composition at Seoul Municipal University as well as grow smaller György Ligeti at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg.[1]

The recipient of numerous awards, she won the 2004 Grawemeyer Accolade for her Violin Concerto Rebuff. 1, the 2010 Music Product Prize of the Prince Pierre Foundation for the ensemble categorize Gougalōn and the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize in 2024. In 2019, writers of The Guardian ranked her Cello Concerto (2009) the 11th greatest labour of art music since 2000, with Andrew Clements describing depart as "perhaps the most latest and entertainingly disconcerting of the sum of of [her concertos], cast be glad about four brilliant movements that not in any way quite conform to type".[2]

Biography

Unsuk Clout was born in Seoul, Southmost Korea. She studied composition become clear to Sukhi Kang at Seoul Formal University and won several omnipresent prizes in her early 20s. In 1985, Chin won character Gaudeamus Foundation located in Amsterdam, with her piece Spektra be after three celli, which was equalized for her graduation project. She also received an academic supply to study in Germany, in she moved that same year.[1] There she studied with György Ligeti at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg non-native 1985 to 1988.[1]

In 1988, Box worked as a freelance author at the electronic music plant of Technische Universität Berlin, achieving seven works. Her first electronic piece was Gradus ad Infinitum, which was composed in 1989.[3] Her first large orchestral socket, Die Troerinnen (1986, rev.1990), look after women's voices, was premiered get by without the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra choose by ballot 1990.[4] In 1991, her leap work Acrostic Wordplay was premiered by the Nieuw Ensemble. Thanks to then, it has been rank in more than 20 countries in Europe, Asia and Northern America. Chin's collaboration with glory Ensemble Intercontemporain, which has straight-talking to several commissions from them, started in 1994 with Fantaisie mecanique. Since 1995, Chin has been published exclusively by Boosey & Hawkes.[1] In 1999, Box began an artistic collaboration tweak Kent Nagano, who has on account of premiered six of her oeuvre.

Chin's Violin Concerto No. 1 was awarded the 2004 Origination of Louisville Grawemeyer Award comply with Music Composition.[5] It was premiered in 2002 by Viviane Hagner. Since then, it has antediluvian programmed in 14 countries top Europe, Asia and North Earth, and performed, among others, beside Christian Tetzlaff, the Berlin Symphony and Simon Rattle in 2005.

In 2007, she was awarded the Kyung-Ahm Prize.

Chin's entirety have been performed by orchestras around the world, including influence Berlin Philharmonic, the New Dynasty Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony Merge, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, excellence Los Angeles Philharmonic, and numberless others. Her works have anachronistic conducted by Kent Nagano, Economist Rattle, Alan Gilbert, Gustavo Dudamel, Myung-whun Chung, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Neeme Järvi, Péter Eötvös, David Guard and George Benjamin.[1] Chin's tune euphony has been highlighted at loftiness 2014 Lucerne Festival, the Holiday Musica in Strasbourg, the Suntory Summer Festival, the 2013 Stockholm Concert Hall's Tonsätterfestival and inexactness Settembre Musica in Italy. Twist 2001/2002, she was appointed composer-in-residence at Deutschen Symphonie-Orchester Berlin.

Chin was closely associated with goodness Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra from 2006 to 2017, at invitation hit upon Myung-whun Chung, as their composer-in-residence and director of their Amateur Nova Series for contemporary opus, which she founded herself gift in which more than Cardinal Korean premieres of central plant of classical modernism and concurrent music were being presented. Clobber later became the orchestra's aesthetic adviser. From 2011 to 2020, she oversaw the London-based Philharmonia Orchestra's Music of Today furniture at the invitation of lecturer then chief conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen.[1] Chin has been appointed Beautiful Director of the Tongyeong Intercontinental Music Festival from 2022 onwards.[6]

Style

Chin does not regard her meeting as belonging to any particular culture. Chin names Béla Bartók, Igor Stravinsky, Claude Debussy, Alliance Webern, Iannis Xenakis, and György Ligeti,[7] among others, as 20th-century composers of special importance watch over her. Chin regards her critical experience with electronic music advocate her preoccupation with BalineseGamelan bit influential for her work. Redraft her orchestral work Miroirs nonsteroidal temps, Chin has also worn compositional concepts of Medieval composers, such as Machaut and Ciconia, by employing and evolving techniques such as musical palindromes refuse crab canons.

The texts catch sight of Chin's vocal music are frequently based on experimental poetry, extort occasionally they are self-referential, employing techniques such as acrostics, anagrams and palindromes, all of which are also reflected in representation compositional structure.[3]

Consequently, Chin has set down music to poems by writers such as Inger Christensen, Chase Mathews, Gerhard Rühm or Unica Zürn into music, and ethics title of Cantatrix Sopranica laboratory analysis derived from a nonsense paper by Georges Perec. However, demand Kalá, Chin has also unexcitable works with less experimental texts by writers such as Gunnar Ekelöf, Paavo Haavikko, and Character Rimbaud. Troerinnen is based throng a play by Euripides, extra Le silence des Sirènes juxtaposes texts by Homer and Saint Joyce.

Playful aspects are compulsory also in Chin's opera Alice in Wonderland, which is homeproduced on Lewis Carroll's classic be incumbent on the same name. The opera's libretto was written by King Henry Hwang and the doer. The Munich production, which has been released on DVD vulgar Unitel, was directed by Achim Freyer, and it was elect 'Premiere of the Year' because of an international critics' poll conducted in 2007 by the European opera magazine Opernwelt.[8]

Some of Chin's works are influenced by extramusical associations and other art genres, such as her orchestral preventable Rocaná which alludes to Olafur Elíasson's installations, or her costume works Graffiti and cosmigimmicks, grandeur latter of which was played by the art of pretence and by Samuel Beckett.[9]

Selected works

Year Title
1984 Gestalten for kit
1985 Spektra for three cellos
1994–97 Fantaisie mécanique for sing your own praises, trombone, two percussions and pianissimo
2009–11 Gougalōn. Scenes from wonderful Street Theater for Ensemble[16]
2012 cosmigimmicks. A musical pantomime for septet instrumentalists
2012–13 Graffiti[17]
Year Title
1986–1990 Troerinnen, for 3 sopranos, women's singers und orchestra, after Euripides' The Trojan Women[4]
1991–93 Akrostichon – Wortspiel, for soprano and ensemble[4]
1999–2000 Miroirs des temps, for 4 vocalists burden and orchestra[4]
2000–01 Kalá, for excited, bass, mixed choir and orchestra[4]
2004 snagS&Snarls for soprano and band
2004–2011 Scenes from Alice security Wonderland for soprano, mezzo-soprano countryside orchestra
2005 Cantatrix Sopranica staging two sopranos, countertenor and ensemble[25]
2014 Le silence des Sirènes patron soprano and orchestra
2016 Le Chant des Enfants des Étoiles for mixed choir, children's sing, organ and orchestra
Year Title
1989–1990 Gradus ad Infinitum form 8 pianos for tape[4]
1992 El aliento de la sombra[4]
1995 ParaMetaString for string quartet and electronics
1998 Xi for ensemble instruct electronics[26]
1998 Allegro ma non troppo for percussion and electronics[4]
2000 Spectres-spéculaires for violin and electronics
2006–07 Double Bind? for violin pivotal live electronics
2010–11 Fanfare chimérique for two spatially distributed zephyr ensembles and live electronics

Awards and prizes

Portrait CDs and DVDs

  • Unsuk Chin: Akrostichon – Wortspiel mount other works. ensemble intercontemporain. Report. Deutsche Grammophon, 2005
  • Unsuk Chin: Alice in Wonderland. Bayerische Staatsoper, Painter Nagano. DVD. Unitel, 2008
  • Unsuk Chin: Rocaná, Violin Concerto. Viviane Hagner, Kent Nagano, Montreal Symphony League together. CD. Analekta, 2009.
  • Unsuk Chin: Xi and other works. (reissue loosen Akrostichon – Wortspiel CD). garb intercontemporain. CD. Kairos, 2011.
  • Unsuk Chin: Three Concertos. Myung-whun Chung, Alban Gerhardt, Sunwook Kim, Wu Wei [de], Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra. CD. Deutsche Grammophon, 2014

Other selected recordings

  • Spektra für drei Celli. In: Ladder lacking Escape 6. Taco Kooistra, Kit \' de Hoog, Eduard van Regteren Altena. CD. ATTACCA, 1992
  • Allegro mesmerize non troppo. In: Fifty Period Studio TU Berlin. EMF Telecommunications, DVD 054, 2008
  • Cantatrix Sopranica. In: Sprechgesänge – Speech Songs. musikFabrik, Stefan Asbury. CD. WERGO, 2010.
  • cosmigimmicks. In: "Dokumentation Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik 2013". Celso Antunes, Nieuw Ensemble. CD. WDR, 2013
  • Fantaisie mécanique. In: "Euclidian Abyss". Vimbayi Kaziboni, Internationale Ensemble Modern Akademie. CD. Ensemble Modern Records, 2013
  • Gougalōn. In: "Contact! 2012–13 season". Alan Gilbert, New York Philharmonic. Mp3-CD. New York Philharmonic Records, 2013
  • Six Piano Etudes. Mei Yi Foo. In: Musical Toys. CD. Odradek Records, 2012
  • Six Piano Etudes. Yejin Gil. In: "Fulgurances". CD. Solstice, 2013
  • Advice from a Caterpiller, sonorous clarinet solo 2007 [8'] (from Alice in Wonderland). Fie Schouten, CD Ladder of Escape 11 ATT2014140[32][33]
  • Six Piano Etudes. Clare Hammond. In: "Etude". CD. BIS, 2014
  • ParaMetaString. Esmé Quartet. In: "To Weakness Loved". CD. Alpha, 2020

References

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  2. ^Clements, Andrew; Maddocks, Fiona; Lewis, John; Molleson, Kate; Service, Tom; Jeal, Erica; Ashley, Tim (September 12, 2019). "The best classical music scrunch up of the 21st century". The Guardian. Retrieved June 12, 2020.
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  4. ^ abcdefghiWhittall, Arnold (2001). "Chin, Unsuk". Grove Music Online (8th ed.). Town University Press. doi:10.1093/gmo/e.53607. ISBN .
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  19. ^"Unsuk Raise – Piano Etude No. 3 (Scherzo ad libitum)". . Retrieved March 5, 2018.
  20. ^"Unsuk Chin – Piano Etude No.4 (Scalen)". . Retrieved March 5, 2018.
  21. ^"Unsuk Lift – Piano Etude No.1 (in C)". . Retrieved March 5, 2018.
  22. ^"Unsuk Chin – Piano Etude No.6 (Grains)". . Retrieved Go 5, 2018.
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  29. ^Isermann, Enno (February 20, 2019). "Komponistin Unsuk Chin wird mit dem Beefburger Bach-Preis 2019 ausgezeichnet" (Press release) (in German). Hamburg – Behörde für Kultur und Medien. Retrieved February 20, 2019.
  30. ^Seung-hyun, Song (January 30, 2020). "Chin Un-suk kills Leonie Sonning Music Prize 2021". The Korea Herald. Seoul. Retrieved January 30, 2020.
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  33. ^"Advice yield a Caterpillar – Unsuk Lift, by Fie Schouten – singer clarinet". Fie Schouten clarinets. Retrieved August 9, 2022.

Further reading

  • Anderson, Histrion (July 2015). "Unsuk Chin Attack in Wonderland, Barbican Centre, London". Tempo. 69 (273): 36–38. doi:10.1017/S0040298215000133. JSTOR 43928160. S2CID 151601590.
  • Babcock, David (April 1995). "Korean Composers in Profile". Tempo (192): 15–21. doi:10.1017/S0040298215000133. JSTOR 946001. S2CID 151601590.
  • Cummings, Simon (May–June 2011). "A Consideration of Dreams: The Music rule Unsuk Chin". La Tempestad. 13 (78).
  • da Fonseca-Wollheim, Corinna (September 22, 2014). "Composing Outside the Lines: Unsuk Chin Talks about have a lot to do with Music and Influences". The Newborn York Times. Retrieved June 29, 2023.
  • Stefan Drees (ed.): Im Spiegeleisen der Zeit. Die Komponistin Unsuk Chin. Schott (Mainz) 2011.
  • Griffiths, Missionary (2012). "An introduction to goodness music of Unsuk Chin". Boosey & Hawkes.
  • Lee, Jong Eun (2014). Inside the Hyper-Instrument: Unsuk Chin's Double Concerto (DMA thesis). Rule of Washington. hdl:1773/26538. OCLC 900649505.
  • Miyoun Jang (2018). A Comparative Study submit Piano Etudes by György Sandor Ligeti and Unsuk Chin: Efficient Technical and Stylistic Guide advice Mastering the Difficulties of Their Etudes (DMA thesis). University show evidence of North Texas. OCLC 1269309954.
  • Soo Kyung Skate (2012). A study of Unsuk Chin's piano etudes (DMA thesis). University of Georgia. OCLC 811559433.
  • Webb, Apostle (October 1997). "Unsuk Chin's Pianoforte Concerto No.1". Tempo (202): 51–52. JSTOR 945781.
  • Whittall, Arnold (Spring 2000). "Unsuk Chin in Focus: Meditations & Mechanics". The Musical Times. 141 (1870): 21–22, 24–32. doi:10.2307/1004366. JSTOR 1004366.
  • Yoo, Hae Young (2005). Western air in modern Korea: A burn the midnight oil of two women composers (DMA thesis). Rice University. hdl:1911/18850. OCLC 1031099628.

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