Biography
Unsuk Chin was born in Seoul in 1961 and received her first music lessons from her father, a Presbyterian minister. She studied composition with Sukhi Kang at Seoul National University and moved to Germany in 1985, studying with György Ligeti at the Hamburg University of Music and Theatre until 1988. She has lived in Berlin since 1988 and has built an international career with orchestral, chamber and stage works. She won the prestigious Grawemeyer Award in 2004 for her first violin concerto, and her only opera to date, Alice in Wonderland, premiered at the Bavarian State Opera in 2007.
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