Unsuk Chin

In this Korean name, the family name is Chin.

Unsuk Chin
Born (1961-07-14) July 14, 1961 (age 63)
Seoul, South Korea
OccupationComposer
StyleContemporary classical
Korean name
Hangul
진은숙
Hanja
Revised RomanizationJin Eunsuk
McCune–ReischauerChin Ŭnsuk

Unsuk Chin (Korean: 진은숙 [tɕin ɯn.suk]; born July 14, 1961) is a South Korean composer of contemporary classical music, who is based in Berlin, Germany. Chin was a self-taught pianist from a young age and studied composition at Seoul National University as well as with György Ligeti at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg.[1]

The recipient of numerous awards, she won the 2004 Grawemeyer Award for her Violin Concerto No. 1, the 2010 Music Composition Prize of the Prince Pierre Foundation for the ensemble piece Gougalōn and the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize in 2024. In 2019, writers of The Guardian ranked her Cello Concerto (2009) the 11th greatest work of art music since 2000, with Andrew Clements describing it as "perhaps the most original and entertainingly disconcerting of all of [her concertos], cast in four brilliant movements that never quite conform to type".[2]

  1. ^ "Unsuk Chin: Biography". Boosey & Hawkes. Retrieved January 20, 2019.
  2. ^ Clements, Andrew; Maddocks, Fiona; Lewis, John; Molleson, Kate; Service, Tom; Jeal, Erica; Ashley, Tim (September 12, 2019). "The best classical music works of the 21st century". The Guardian. Retrieved June 12, 2020.