Portrait concert by Capell-Compositrice Unsuk Chin
Mitwirkende
- Unsuk Chin Capell-Compositrice
- Jonathan Stockhammer Conductor
gespielte Werke
Bernd Richard Deutsch
- Dr. Futurity«
Arnold Schönberg
- Intermezzo aus dem Streichquartett D-Dur
George Benjamin
- »Three Inventions«
Yiqing Zhu
- Ein Stück für 8 Streichinstrumente (Deutsche Erstaufführung)
Hans Abrahamsen
- »Märchenbilder«
Unsuk Chin
- »Graffiti«
Conductor Jonathan Stockhammer
in conversation with Unsuk Chin
- Thursday6.11.2520:00 UhrHellerau - Europäisches Zentrum der KünsteTicket price:
24 €
Unsuk Chin
Unsuk Chin was born in the South Korean capital, Seoul, in 1961. She studied composition at Seoul National University under Sukhi Kang and, from 1985 to 1988, under György Ligeti at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hamburg. Her international career was launched in 1985 when she won first prize at the Gaudeamus competition in Amsterdam. Since then, her music has been performed by many top international orchestras under outstanding conductors as well as by renowned instrumental ensembles.
Unsuk Chin was Composer-in-Residence for the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra from 2006 to 2017, where she founded and ran a concert series dedicated to contemporary music. From 2011 to 2020, she was Artistic Director of the »Music of Today« series of London’s Philharmonia Orchestra and since 2022 has been programme director of the Tongyeong International Festival in South Korea as well as heading the Weiwuying International Music Festival in Taiwan. She has received numerous awards for her work, including the Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition, the »Arnold Schönberg Prize« as well as prizes from the Kyung-Ahm and Daewon Foundations. In 2024, she received the »Ernst von Siemens Music Prize«. The composer has lived in Berlin since 1988.
Jonathan Stockhammer
If you want to do justice to the broad spectrum of Jonathan Stockhammer's musical work and his cross-genre curiosity, you have to leave the usual pigeonholes and classifications behind. Born in Los Angeles, the conductor who consistently pushes musicals limits devotes himself to the classical and contemporary repertoire with the same passion. This is the driving force behind his work: to understand and appreciate music in its universality. He loves opera, ballet and modern dance theatre, experimental premieres and unconventional concert formats that break down encrusted structures in favour of new listening experiences. Thanks to his astonishing talent for explaining music and understanding the audience not only as a resonating space but as a dialogue partner, he makes music newly understandable, newly experienceable.
The list of renowned orchestras and ensembles with which Jonathan Stockhammer has worked is long: there is the London Symphony Orchestra, the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, the NDR Sinfonieorchester Hamburg, hr-Sinfonieorchester, Sydney Symphony Orchestra and the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra. He is a regular guest at the Opéra de Lyon and the Zurich Opera House, has premiered two operas with the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra and has conducted the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, the New York City Opera, the Vienna State Opera, the Basel Theatre and the Komische Oper Berlin, among others.The Staatsballett Berlin, the Sinfonieorchester Basel, the Ensemble Modern, the Dresden Philharmonic, the Essen Philharmonic, the SWR Sinfonieorchester and the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin appreciate the long-standing collaboration and dialogue partnership.
Awards such as the Echo Klassik for a recording of works by Frank Zappa with the Ensemble Modern or the Grammy for a live recording with Chick Corea, Gary Burton and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra testify to it: Jonathan Stockhammer is a passionate traveller between different musical worlds. Fortunately, he finds no place in a pigeonhole.
