Unsuk Chin: festival features in Italy and France
(August 2007)
This autumn brings a series of major festival features for Unsuk Chin
Italy’s leading new music festival, Settembre Musica, now in Milan as well as Turin, includes performances of Unsuk Chin's most notable works. This is part of a focus on Korean composers in which Chin's music is presented in conjunction with that of Isang Yun, the father figure for Korean contemporary composers.
The Chin highlight will be a complete London Sinfonietta programme devoted to her music, including the Italian premieres of Cantatrix Sopranica and the Double Concerto, together with her most performed work Acrostic-Wordplay. Nicholas Hodges and David Hockings are soloists in the Double Concerto, and Yeree Suh is soprano in Acrostic-Wordplay, with the London Sinfonietta conducted by Baldur Bronniman. The performances take place at the Teatro Dal Verme in Milan (6 September) and the Piccolo Regio Giacomo Puccini in Turin (7 September).
Also on the Settembre Musica programme is Chin's Grawemeyer Award-winning Violin Concerto performed by Francesco D’Orazio and the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, at the Auditorium RAI in Turin (5 September) and the Teatro Dal Verme in Milan (6 September). Yun repertoire in this programme are Reak, his 1966 breakthrough orchestral work following his emigration to Germany, and Namo for soprano and orchestra.
The following month brings a Chin weekend (5-6 October) at the Musica festival in Strasbourg with four programmes including her music. On Saturday Acrostic-Wordplay is performed by Ensemble Modern conducted by Frank Ollu, and the SWR Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart and the WDR Cologne Radio Choir combine forces for the French premieres of two large-scale works for chorus and orchestra, Trojan Women and Kala, conducted by Rupert Huber. On Sunday Andrew Zolinsky plays Chin's Piano Etudes and the weekend ends with the Violin Concerto with Hae-Sun-Kang as soloist and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg conducted by Marc Albrecht
Also on 6 October Acrostic-Wordplay is performed at the Venice Biennale in the Nieuw Ensemble's programme of new music from the East.
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