{"id":117770,"date":"2026-05-13T09:38:46","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T09:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=117770"},"modified":"2026-05-13T09:38:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T09:38:46","slug":"germany-based-composer-unsuk-chin-wins-top-honors-at-daewon-music-awards-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=117770","title":{"rendered":"Germany-based composer Unsuk Chin wins top honors at Daewon Music Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Unsuk Chin has been selected as the Grand Prize winner of the 14th Daewon Music Awards, the Daewon Culture Foundation announced Wednesday. Pianist Sunwoo Yekwon received the Performance Award, while violinist Kim Seo-hyun was named recipient of the Emerging Artist Award, which honors promising young musicians. Chin is regarded as the most internationally acclaimed Korean composer since Isang Yun (1917-1925). Over the years, she has elevated the global standing of Korean classical music through a string of prestigious honors, including the Grawemeyer Award (2004), the Arnold Schoenberg Prize (2005), the Prince Pierre of Monaco Composition Prize (2010), the Wihuri Sibelius Prize (2017), the Hamburg Bach Prize (2019), the Marie-Jos\u00e9e Kravis Prize (2020), the L\u00e9onie Sonning Music Prize (2021) and the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize (2024). Last year, Chin won the Contemporary Music Recording Award at the International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) for the Berliner Philharmoniker\u2019s \u201cUnsuk Chin Edition.\u201d In March this year, she also became the first Korean recipient of the BBVA Foundati<\/div>\n
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