Total Immersion: Unsuk Chin
with the BBC Symphony Orchestra
Saturday 09 April 2011
11.00AM TALK
Music Hall, Guildhall School of Music and Drama
An introduction to Unsuk Chin and her music by Professor Jonathan Cross plus a performance of Double Bind? for violin and electonics performed by Jenna Sherry, a student at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama
Admission by free ticket only. Limited availability but admission guaranteed with a Day Pass.
Music Hall, Guildhall School of Music and Drama
An introduction to Unsuk Chin and her music by Professor Jonathan Cross plus a performance of Double Bind? for violin and electonics performed by Jenna Sherry, a student at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama
Admission by free ticket only. Limited availability but admission guaranteed with a Day Pass.
12.00PM FREE EVENT
Music Hall, Guildhall School of Music and Drama
Music Hall, Guildhall School of Music and Drama
Unsuk Chin
Six Piano Études performed by Clare Hammond, a student from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama
Admission by free ticket only. Limited availability but admission guaranteed with a Day Pass.
1.00PM CONCERT
Barbican Hall
Unsuk Chin
Gougalon (UK premiere)
Double Concerto
Acrostic Wordplay
London Sinfonietta
Stefan Asbury conductor
Yeree Suh soprano
Andrew Zolinsky piano
Owen Gunnell percussion
Unsuk Chin recalls the ‘Proustian moment’ she experienced on first visiting China in 2008/09, where the sights, sounds and smells of ancient neighbourhoods revived memories of her Korean childhood. “ I was particularly reminded of a troupe of entertainers I saw a number of times as a child in a suburb of Seoul,” she recalls. Their hugely popular act involved selling quack remedies, and Chin’s ‘Scenes from a Street Theatre’, Gougalon , takes its title from an Old High German expression for hoodwinking or fooling people by feigned magic. Its ‘imaginary folk music’ evokes memory’s lasting powers. The concert also includes the sensational showpiece Acrostic Wordplay, Chin’s international breakthrough work.
Tickets £12
Barbican Hall
Unsuk Chin
Gougalon (UK premiere)
Double Concerto
Acrostic Wordplay
London Sinfonietta
Stefan Asbury conductor
Yeree Suh soprano
Andrew Zolinsky piano
Owen Gunnell percussion
Unsuk Chin recalls the ‘Proustian moment’ she experienced on first visiting China in 2008/09, where the sights, sounds and smells of ancient neighbourhoods revived memories of her Korean childhood. “ I was particularly reminded of a troupe of entertainers I saw a number of times as a child in a suburb of Seoul,” she recalls. Their hugely popular act involved selling quack remedies, and Chin’s ‘Scenes from a Street Theatre’, Gougalon , takes its title from an Old High German expression for hoodwinking or fooling people by feigned magic. Its ‘imaginary folk music’ evokes memory’s lasting powers. The concert also includes the sensational showpiece Acrostic Wordplay, Chin’s international breakthrough work.
Tickets £12
3.00PM FILM
Barbican Theatre
Alice in Wonderland
A film of the 2007 Bavarian State Opera premiere production of Chin’s opera, conducted by Kent Nagano and with Sally Matthews as Alice.
Ger, 2007, Dir. Ellen Fellmann, 123 mins
Tickets £3 (unreserved seating)
6.00PM TALK
A film of the 2007 Bavarian State Opera premiere production of Chin’s opera, conducted by Kent Nagano and with Sally Matthews as Alice.
Ger, 2007, Dir. Ellen Fellmann, 123 mins
Tickets £3 (unreserved seating)
6.00PM TALK
Barbican Theatre
Unsuk Chin in conversation with Professor Jonathan Cross
Admission by free ticket only. Limited availability but admission guaranteed with a Day Pass.
Admission by free ticket only. Limited availability but admission guaranteed with a Day Pass.
8.00PM CONCERT
Barbican Hall
Unsuk Chin
Rocaná (Room of Light) (London premiere)
Violin Concerto
Šu (Concerto for Chinese Sheng and Orchestra) (UK premiere)
Kalá
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov conductor
Sarah Tynan soprano
Martin Snell bass
Jennifer Koh violin
Wu Wei sheng
BBC Singers
Don’t miss the UK premiere of Unsuk Chin’s Šu (2009), set in company with three other extraordinarily inventive explorations of musical timbre and texture. Shifting tone colours, bold percussion outbursts and exquisite flecks of sound shimmer on the constantly evolving surface of Rocaná (2008), a work simply described by the New York Times as ‘a knockout’. Critical and audience reactions to the composer’s Violin Concerto (2001) underline the Grawemeyer Award winning score’s status among essential 21st-century compositions. Kalá,first performed in 2001 under the direction of Peter Eötvös, deftly employs solo and choral voices to enrich the composer’s beguiling approach to musical sound.
Tickets £24 £20 £16 £12 £8
Barbican Hall
Unsuk Chin
Rocaná (Room of Light) (London premiere)
Violin Concerto
Šu (Concerto for Chinese Sheng and Orchestra) (UK premiere)
Kalá
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov conductor
Sarah Tynan soprano
Martin Snell bass
Jennifer Koh violin
Wu Wei sheng
BBC Singers
Don’t miss the UK premiere of Unsuk Chin’s Šu (2009), set in company with three other extraordinarily inventive explorations of musical timbre and texture. Shifting tone colours, bold percussion outbursts and exquisite flecks of sound shimmer on the constantly evolving surface of Rocaná (2008), a work simply described by the New York Times as ‘a knockout’. Critical and audience reactions to the composer’s Violin Concerto (2001) underline the Grawemeyer Award winning score’s status among essential 21st-century compositions. Kalá,first performed in 2001 under the direction of Peter Eötvös, deftly employs solo and choral voices to enrich the composer’s beguiling approach to musical sound.
Tickets £24 £20 £16 £12 £8
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