It was premiered in 2002 by Viviane Hagner. In 1999, Chin began an artistic collaboration with Kent Nagano, who has since premiered six of her works.Ĭhin's Violin Concerto was awarded the 2004 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition. Since 1995, Unsuk Chin has been published exclusively by Boosey & Hawkes.
Chin's collaboration with the Ensemble Intercontemporain, which has led to several commissions from them, started in 1994 with Fantaisie mecanique. Since then, it has been performed in more than 20 countries in Europe, Asia and North America. In 1991, her breakthrough work Acrostic Wordplay was premiered by the Nieuw Ensemble. Her first large orchestral piece, Die Troerinnen (1986, rev.1990), for women's voices, was premiered by the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra in 1990. In 1988, Unsuk Chin worked as a freelance composer at the electronic music studio of the Technical University of Berlin, realizing seven works: her first electronic piece was Gradus ad Infinitum, which was composed in 1989. There she studied with György Ligeti at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg from 1985 to 1988. She also received an academic grant to study in Germany, and moved to Germany that same year. In 1985, Chin won the Gaudeamus Foundation located in Amsterdam, with her piece Spektra for three celli, which was created for her graduation project. She studied composition with Sukhi Kang at Seoul National University and won several international prizes in her early 20s.
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