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"The most promising new work by a young composer I’ve heard in years."

Ivan Hewett, The Telegraph

"A composer of colour, a composer of new dimensions"

François-Xavier Roth, conductor

"Shimmered and glimmered, offering a stylised kind of theatricality."

Neil Fischer, The Times

"Shin writes music with a comprehensible, almost language-like syntax, forming phrases and enriching them ... to create fascinating sound paintings"

Berliner Morgenpost

BIOGRAPHY

DONGHOON SHIN – COMPOSER

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Born in South Korea in 1983, Donghoon Shin studied composition at Seoul National University with Sukhi Kang and Uzong Choe. He moved to London in 2014, studying with Julian Anderson at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He currently combines his composing career with studies for a PhD in Composition supervised by Sir George Benjamin at King’s College London.

In 2010 Donghoon Shin won the Gran Prix of the ANM-BBVA International Composition Concours, followed by the Goethe Award in 2013 from the Goethe Institut and Tongyeong International Music Festival. Major awards over the past decade include the Royal Philharmonic Society Composition Prize in 2016, a UK Critics’ Circle Music Award for Young Talent in 2019, and the Claudio Abbado Prize in 2022. In 2017-18 he served as Young Composer in Residence with the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group through Sound and Music’s Embedded Scheme and in 2019 was selected as a composer laureate for three years by Ricordilab.

Donghoon Shin’s music has been performed and commissioned by prominent orchestras, ensembles and festivals such as the London Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Helsinki Philharmonic, Karajan Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic, Dresden Philharmonic, Spanish National Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Ensemble Recherche, Riot Ensemble, EXAUDI ensemble, Festival d’Automne à Paris and Tongyeong International Music Festival.

Recent works include Of Rats and Men (2019) for chamber orchestra, premiered by the Karajan Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Peter Eötvös, with further performances in Grafenegg, Budapest and Seoul. Kafka’s Dream (2018/19), inspired by Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges’s essay about Kafka, was first performed by the London Symphony Orchestra under François-Xavier Roth, has travelled to Dresden and will be toured internationally by the Seoul Philharmonic in autumn 2022. A new Cello Concerto for Bruno Delepelaire and the Karajan Academy conducted by Kirill Petrenko is premiered in May 2022 in Berlin.

Donghoon’s music is published by Boosey & Hawkes.

UPCOMING EVENTS

6 Jul 2023

The Hunter’s Funeral for ensemble

Korean Chamber Orchestra, Soo-Yeol Choi (cond.)

Seoul Arts Center, South Korea

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29 Sep 2023

Of Rats and Men for orchestra

WDR Symphony Orchestra, Peter Eötvös (cond.)

Klaus-von-Bismarck-Saal, Cologne

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7 Dec 2023

Concerto for violin and orchestra

(World Premiere)

Panon Philharmonic Orchestra, Kristof Barati (vln.), Boon-Hua Lien (cond.)

Kodály Center, Pécs, Hungary

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21 Dec 2023

Upon His Ghostly Solitude for orchestra

(Asian Premiere)

Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, Zaap van Zweden (cond.)

Lotte Concert Hall, Seoul, South Korea

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22 Dec 2023

Upon His Ghostly Solitude for orchestra

Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, Zaap van Zweden (cond.)

Lotte Concert Hall, Seoul, South Korea

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27 Jan 2024

Upon His Ghostly Solitude for orchestra

(Dutch Premiere)

Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, Osmo Vänskä (cond.)

Het Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, Netherlands

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21 Mar 2024

Of Rats and Men for orchestra

(US Premiere)

Seattle Symphony, Osmo Vänskä (cond.)

Benaroya Hall, Seattle, US

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23 Mar 2024

Of Rats and Men for orchestra

Seattle Symphony, Osmo Vänskä (cond.)

Benaroya Hall, Seattle, US

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24 Mar 2024

Of Rats and Men for orchestra

Seattle Symphony, Osmo Vänskä (cond.)

Benaroya Hall, Seattle, US

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7 Apr 2024

Nachtergebung for cello and orchestra

(UK Premiere)

London Symphony Orchestra, Rebecca Gilliver (vc.), François-Xavier Roth (cond.)

Barbican, London, UK

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25 Apr 2024

The Hunter’s Funeral for ensemble

Pacific Symphony, Shiyeon Sung (cond.)

Renée & Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall, Costa Mesa, CA, US

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26 Apr 2024

The Hunter’s Funeral for ensemble

Pacific Symphony, Shiyeon Sung (cond.)

Renée & Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall, Costa Mesa, CA, US

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27 Apr 2024

The Hunter’s Funeral for ensemble

Pacific Symphony, Shiyeon Sung (cond.)

Renée & Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall, Costa Mesa, CA, US

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2 May 2024

Kafka’s Dream for orchestra

(US Premiere)

Houston Symphony, Fabien Gabel (cond.)

Jones Hall for Performing Arts, Houston, US

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4 May 2024

Kafka’s Dream for orchestra

Houston Symphony, Fabien Gabel (cond.)

Jones Hall for Performing Arts, Houston, US

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5 May 2024

Kafka’s Dream for orchestra

Houston Symphony, Fabien Gabel (cond.)

Jones Hall for Performing Arts, Houston, US

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