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

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

DONGHOON SHIN – COMPOSER

Donghoon Shin’s music has been performed and commissioned by prominent orchestras, ensembles and festivals such as the Berlin Philharmonic, London Symphony Orchestra, LA Philharmonic, 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, Festival d’Automne à Paris and Tongyeong International Music Festival.

Recent works include Threadsuns (2024), concerto for viola and orchestra, premiered by Amihai Grosz and the Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Tugan Sokhiev, with further performances in Seoul, Minnesota, Vienna and Tokyo. Nachtergebung (2022), concerto for cello and orchestra, inspired by the Austrian Expressionist poet Georg Trakl’s poems, was first performed by Bruno Delepelaire and the Karajan Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic under Kirill Petrenko, has travelled to Edinburgh and was toured in Korea by the BBC Scottish Symphony in 2024. A new Piano Concerto for Seong-Jin Cho and the London Symphony Orchestra by Maxime Pascal will be premiered in November 2025 in London.

Donghoon’s music is published by Boosey & Hawkes.