All shall have prizes: Chin up
NewsThe Ernst von Siemens Music Prize 2024, worth quarter of a million Euros, is to be awarded to the South Korean composer Unsuk Chin.
The citation reads: With Unsuk Chin, the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation is honouring an internationally renowned composer whose works are performed worldwide. With her great successes such as the opera Alice in
Wonderland, she has opened up new paths for new music and inspired a wide audience. Chin does not override traditional concepts such as melody and harmony, but reinterprets them again and again. Her works are characterised by lucid, dreamlike sounds and a humorous lightness. The result is music that is easily accessible to the audience, but at the same time remains complex and challenging. Chin sees herself as an international composer who is familiar with both Asian and Western culture.
Chin, 62, is published by Boosey & Hawkes.
Three lesser composer prizes of 35,000 euros each go to Bára Gísladóttir from Iceland, the Italian Daniele Ghisi and Yiqing Zhu from China.
Even for you, the caption was tasteless.
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A supremely worthy award recipient. Happy to listen to anything she writes.
What does Chin write, that deserves a quarter of a million euroes?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHvvGPhYGO4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PhS25Rf_bQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp-dm9OS10M
She is a virtuoso modernist, and a nervous & anxious one, with touches of music.
Siemens apparently thinks it is ‘modern’. It is not. It is full-blown neurosis of half a century old.
Japan, S-Korea, Germany, France – areas where modernism took hold in a stronger way than anywhere else. How come? These countries suffered terribly from war.