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Composer and curator Unsuk CHIN was born in 1961 in Seoul, and she has lived in Germany since 1985. Chin's career has been celebrated with a series of classical music awards such as the Leonie Sonning Prize, the Sibelius Prize and the Grawemeyer Award. Hermusic has attracted the attention of international conductors such as Simon RATTLE, Alan GILBERT, Gustavo DUDAMEL, Kent NAGANO, and others. Regularly commissioned by leading performing organizations worldwide, Chin's music has been performed by orchestras such as the Berlin Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw, among others. She has been Composer-in-Residence of the Lucerne Festival, the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, the BBC's Total Immersion Festival, and many more.
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Conductor|CHIEN Wen-pin
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CHIEN Wen-pin, General and Artistic Director of the National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts (Weiwuying), was born in 1967, graduated from the National Taiwan Academy of Arts and awarded a Master's degree at the National University for Music and Performing Arts Vienna. CHIEN joined the Deutsche Oper am Rhein (Düsseldorf / Duisburg, Germany) in 1996 and served as "Kapellmeister" for 22 years. 1998-2004 he was Resident Conductor of the Pacific Music Festival (Sapporo, Japan).
\n\n2001-2007 he was Music Director of National Symphony Orchestra (Taiwan Philharmonic); during his tenure the orchestra has achieved several milestones such as creating Subscription series, commissioning Taiwanese composers, introducing an opera series which coroneted with the first production of the complete "Der Ring des Nibelungen" by Richard WAGNER in Chinese speaking areas, upon orchestra's 20th anniversary in 2006. 2014-2016 CHIEN was Artistic Advisor of the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra. In addition, CHIEN was winner of the "National Award for Arts" in 2014.
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