Unsuk chin biography of nancy

Violinist Nancy Zhou and Composer Vivian Fung are thrilled to share a new project premiering in for violin and electronics that explores.

Lauded as one of today's probing musical voices infused with searing virtuosity, Nancy Zhou is the winner of the Shanghai Isaac Stern Violin Competition.

Born in Texas to Chinese immigrant parents, Nancy began the violin under the guidance of her father, who hails from a family of traditional musicians.

Deep gratitude towards dear Anne-Sophie Mutter for our New York, Chicago, and Toronto premieres of Unsuk Chin's Gran Cadenza for two solo violins.

Born in Texas to Chinese immigrants, Nancy learned the violin from her father.

Born in Texas to Chinese immigrant parents, Nancy began the violin under the guidance of her father, who hails from a family of traditional musicians....

Unsuk Chin

South Korean composer (born 1961)

In this Korean name, the family name is Chin.

Unsuk Chin (Korean: 진은숙[tɕinɯn.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 t