 unsuk chin (; born july 14, 1961) is a south korean composer of classical music, based in berlin, germany. she was awarded the grawemeyer award in 2004, the arnold schÃ¶nberg prize in 2005 and the music composition prize of the prince pierre foundation in 2010. == biography == unsuk chin was born in seoul, korea. she studied composition with sukhi kang at seoul national university and won several international prizes in her early 20s. she studied with gyÃ¶rgy ligeti at the hochschule fÃ¼r musik und theater hamburg from 1985 to 1988. in 1988 unsuk chin moved to berlin, where she worked as a freelance composer at the electronic music studio of the technical university of berlin, realizing seven works. her first large orchestral piece, troerinnen, was premiered by the bergen philharmonic orchestra in 1990. in 1991, her breakthrough work acrostic wordplay was premiered by the nieuw ensemble - since then it has been performed in more than 20 countries in europe, asia and north america. chin's collaboration with the ensemble intercontemporain, which has led to several commissions from the latter, started in 1994 with fantaisie mecanique. since 1995, unsuk chin is published exclusively by boosey & hawkes. in 1999, chin began an artistic collaboration with kent nagano, who has since premiered six of her works. chin's violin concerto, for which she was awarded the 2004 university of louisville grawemeyer award for music composition, was premiered in 2002 by viviane hagner. since then it has been programmed in 14 countries in europe, asia and north america, and performed, among others, by christian tetzlaff, the berlin philharmonic orchestra and simon rattle in 2005. unsuk chin's works have been performed by conductors such as kent nagano, simon rattle, alan gilbert, gustavo dudamel, myung-whun chung, esa-pekka salonen, neeme jÃ¤rvi, peter eÃ¶tvÃ¶s, david robertson and george benjamin as well as by leading orchestras and ensembles such as the berlin philharmonic orchestra, new york philharmonic orchestra, bbc symphony orchestra, chicago symphony orchestra, london philharmonic orchestra, los angeles philharmonic orchestra, boston symphony orchestra, deutsches symphonie-orchester berlin, philharmonia orchestra, tokyo symphony orchestra, orchestre philharmonique de radio france, oslo philharmonic orchestra, city of birmingham symphony orchestra, montreal symphony orchestra, ndr symphony orchestra, finnish radio symphony orchestra, [[nethe
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