"The most promising new work by a young composer I’ve heard in years."
BIOGRAPHY
DONGHOON SHIN – COMPOSER
Donghoon Shin is a South Korean composer based in London. His music has been performed and commissioned by prominent orchestras, ensembles and festivals such as the London Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Gürzenich Orchestra in Cologne, Spanish National Orchestra, Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Ensemble Recherche, Riot Ensemble, Festival d’Automne a Paris, Tongyeong International Music Festival, TIMF Ensemble and Exaudi ensemble.
He won numerous prizes including the Royal Philharmonic Society Composition Prize in 2016, Goethe Award by Goethe Institut and Tongyeong International Music Festival in 2013 and the Gran Prix of the ANM-BBVA International Composition Concours in 2010. He also served the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group as Young Composer in Residence (2017-18) through the Embedded Scheme of the Sound and Music.
Recent works include Of Rats and Men for chamber orchestra commissioned and premiered by the Karajan Academy of the Berliner Philharmoniker conducted by Peter Eötvös and Kafka’s Dream for the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by François-Xavier Roth.
Internationally renowned orchestras will perform new works by Donghoon: the Los Angeles Philharmonic, together with Seoul Philharmonic and Bamberg Symphony commissioned a new orchestral work (WP: May 2021); a new violin concerto (for the violinist Kristóf Baráti and the conductor Boon-Hua Lien) is commissioned by the Pannon Philharmonic Orchestra and the Peter Eötvös Music Foundation (WP: November 2020).
UPCOMING EVENTS
17 Feb 2021
The Hunter’s Funeral for ensemble
(Finnish Premiere)
21 Mar 2021
Kafka’s Dream for orchestra
(German Premiere)
(Cancelled due to COVID-19)
22 Mar 2021
Kafka’s Dream for orchestra
(Cancelled due to COVID-19)
23 Mar 2021
Kafka’s Dream for orchestra
(Cancelled due to COVID-19)
18 Apr 2021
My Shadow for Clarinet, 2 violins, cello & piano
(World Premiere)
2 May 2021
New Piece for orchestra
(World Premiere)
(Postponed due to COVID-19)
LA Philharmonic Orchestra, Shiyeon Sung (cond.)
Walt Disney Concert Hall, LA, USA
Autumn 2021
My Shadow for Clarinet, 2 violins, cello & piano
(UK Premiere)
City of London Sinfonia
Venue TBA
Autumn 2022
New Piece for orchestra
(World Premiere)
LA Philharmonic Orchestra, Conductor TBA
Walt Disney Concert Hall, LA, USA
2022/23
New Piece for orchestra
(Asian Premiere)
Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, Osmo Vänskä (cond.)
Venue TBA
May 2023
New Piece for orchestra
(European Premiere)
Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, Osmo Vänskä (cond.)
Konzerthalle Bamberg, Germany