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Unsuk Chin

South Korean composer

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.

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".

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Works

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  • Akrostichon-Wortspiel
  • Akrostichon-Wortspiel: I. Hide and Seek
  • Akrostichon-Wortspiel: II. The Puzzle of the Three Magic Gates
  • Akrostichon-Wortspiel: III. The Rules of the Game / sdrawkcab EmiT
  • Akrostichon-Wortspiel: IV. Four Seasons in Five Versions
  • Akrostichon-Wortspiel: V. Domifare S
  • Akrostichon-Wortspiel: VI. The Game of Chance
  • Akrostichon-Wortspiel: VII. From the Old TIme
  • Alice in Wonderland
  • Cello Concerto
  • Cello Concerto: I "Aniri"
  • Cello Concerto: II
  • Cello Concerto: III
  • Cello Concerto: IV
  • Chorós Chordón
  • Clarinet Concerto
  • Double Concerto
  • Fantaisie mécanique
  • Gran Cadenza, for Two Violins
  • Le Silence des sirènes
  • ParaMetaString
  • ParaMetaString: I. Allegro
  • ParaMetaString: II. Andante
  • ParaMetaString: III. Andantino
  • ParaMetaString: IV. Moderato – Allegro
  • Piano Concerto
  • Piano Concerto: I
  • Piano Concerto: II
  • Piano Concerto: III
  • Piano Concerto: IV
  • Rocaná
  • Six Piano Études
  • Six Piano Études: No. 1 in C
  • Six Piano Études: No. 2. Sequenzen
  • Six Piano Études: No. 3. Scherzo ad libitum
  • Six Piano Études: No. 4. Scalen
  • Six Piano Études: No. 5. Toccata
  • Six Piano Études: No. 6. Grains
  • Spektra für drei Celli
  • Subito con forza
  • Violin Concerto
  • Violin Concerto: Movement I
  • Violin Concerto: Movement II
  • Violin Concerto: Movement III
  • Violin Concerto: Movement IV
  • Xi
  • snagS&Snarls
  • Šu