Martin says:

Gleaming, glistening, virtuoso orchestral magic.

[from boosey.com]

Unsuk Chin was born in Seoul, studied with Ligeti in Hamburg, and is now resident in Berlin * Winner of the 2004 Grawemeyer Award for her Violin Concerto No.1, the 2005 Arnold Schoenberg prize, the 2010 Prince Pierre Foundation Music Award, the 2017 Wihuri Sibelius Prize and the 2018 Kravis Prize * Her output features both electronic and acoustic scores * Music is modern in language, but lyrical and non-doctrinaire in communicative power * Acute ear for instrumentation, orchestral colour, and rhythmic imagery * Works performed worldwide by major orchestras, contemporary music ensembles and interpreters * Championed by conductors Kent Nagano, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Gustavo Dudamel, Simon Rattle, Markus Stenz, Peter Eötvös, David Robertson, Myung-Whun Chung and George Benjamin, and violinists Christian Tetzlaff, Viviane Hagner and Renaud Capuçon * Performed by Bavarian State Opera, Berlin Philharmonic, BBC Symphony, Chicago Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, London Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, Radio France Philharmonic, Montreal Symphony, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and others * Programmed by contemporary music ensembles such as Ensemble Intercontemporain, London Sinfonietta, Klangforum Wien, Asko|Schönberg Ensemble, Ensemble Modern, Arditti Quartet and Kronos Quartet * Portrait CDs released on Deutsche Grammophon, Kairos and Analekta and Alice in Wonderland opera available on Unitel DVD * Artistic Director of Tongyeong International Festival in South Korea and Weiwuying International Music Festival in Taiwan from 2022