"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, 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 and upcoming commissions and premieres include Kafka’s Dream for London Symphony Orchestra and the conductor Francois-Xavier Roth in March 2019, a new chamber orchestra piece for the Karajan Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and the conductor Peter Eötvös (Dec 2019), a new concerto for Sheng player Wu Wei and the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group (Mar 2019) and a new piano piece for pianist Sunwook Kim at the Wigmore Hall(Jan 2019).
UPCOMING EVENTS
2019
Autumn 2020
New Violin Concerto
(World Premiere)
Pannon Philharmonic Orchestra, Boon-Hua Lien (cond.)
Soloist and venue TBC
5 Apr 2020
New Chamber Orchestra Piece
(Asian Premiere)
Tongyeong International Music Festival, Peter Eötvös(cond.)
South Korea
8 Dec 2019
New Chamber Orchestra Piece
(World Premiere)
Karajan Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Peter Eötvös(cond.)
Philharmonie, Berlin, Germany
30 Nov 2019
New Piece for 6 instruments
(World Premiere)
UMZE Ensemble
The Mentoring Programme of the Peter Eötvös Foundation
Budapest Music Center, Hungary
26 APR 2019
In this Valley of Dying Stars for Orchestra
Recording session with London Symphony Orchestra and François-Xavier Roth(cond.)
LSO St. Luke’s, London, UK
13 APR 2019
Concerto for the Most Ordinary Things for 3 Percussionists
(World Premiere)
Players of the Danubia Orchestra Óbuda
The Mentoring Programme of the Peter Eötvös Foundation
Budapest Music Centre, Budapest, Hungary
24 MAR 2019
Kafka’s Dream
(World Premiere)
London Symphony Orchestra, François-Xavier Roth (cond.)
Barbican Hall, London, UK