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Unsuk Chin The Musician Who Climbs Mountains

2023-02-06T14:26:02.254Z


Born in Seoul into a poor family, the composer, honored at the Présences festival, is recognized as one of the greatest. Meeting with an artist who makes contemporary music accessible.


Guest of honor of Radio France at the Festival Présences 2023 is one of the most performed composers of our time.

His orchestral works are premiered by Simon Rattle or Gustavo Dudamel, his opera

Alice in Wonderland

was premiered in Munich by Kent Nagano before experiencing many occasions.

Her eighteen works, which will be performed in Paris over six days, will paint the portrait of a musician with a very personal universe, which her virtuoso imagination makes accessible to audiences unfamiliar with contemporary music, without however renouncing a requirement without concession.

When she was born in Korea in 1961, nothing predisposed her to become an avant-garde composer living in Berlin!

This daughter of a poor pastor grew up in a country under military dictatorship where she discovered music thanks to the piano acquired by her father to accompany the parishioners.

Korean traditional music is not taught, Western music is only within the limits of classicism.

Until…

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Source: lefigaro

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