{"id":100959,"date":"2023-12-19T15:04:06","date_gmt":"2023-12-19T20:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/?p=100959"},"modified":"2023-12-19T15:04:06","modified_gmt":"2023-12-19T20:04:06","slug":"preview-torontos-esprit-orchestra-present-north-american-premiere-unsuk-chins-operascope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2023\/12\/19\/preview-torontos-esprit-orchestra-present-north-american-premiere-unsuk-chins-operascope\/","title":{"rendered":"PREVIEW | Toronto\u2019s Esprit Orchestra Present North American Premiere Of Unsuk Chin\u2019s Operascope"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Unsuk Chin (Photo: Priska Ketterer)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Composer Unsuk Chin’s Operascope will receive its North American premiere on January 24 in Toronto in a performance by Esprit Orchestra and conductor Alex Pauk. Esprit\u2019s concert titled \u4e09\/ THREE will also include the North American premiere of Japanese composer Misato Mochizuki’s 2019 piece Nigredo, and the Toronto premiere of Rita Ueda’s 2022 work Birds Calling…From the Canada in You, originally commissioned as part of the 2022 Azrieli Music Prize for New Canadian Music.<\/p>\n

Toronto’s Esprit Orchestra has teamed up with some of the world’s leading ensembles to commission Operascope from the South Korean\/German composer, including Bayerische Staatsorchester (DE), Orchestre de Paris (FR), Sao Paulo State Symphony (BR), and Tongyeong Festival (KR).<\/p>\n

Operascope received its world premiere on November 6, 2023 with the Bayerisches Staatsorchester and Kent Nagano. From Toronto, Operascope will travel to S\u00e3o Paolo for its South American premiere with the S\u00e3o Paulo State Symphony Orchestra and Thierry Fischer on February 23. On April 4, it will be performed by the G\u00fcrzenich-Orchester K\u00f6ln in Germany, and finally make its French debut with the Orchestre de Paris led by conductor Andr\u00e9s Orozco-Estrada on April 17 and 18.<\/p>\n

Unsuk Chin<\/h2>\n

Based in Berlin today, Unsuk Chin was born in Seoul, and taught herself to play piano from an early age. \u201cI planned to become a concert pianist, but in the South Korea of the 1960s, as the youngest sister of a poor family, there was not enough money for formal tuition,\u201d she writes in a statement.<\/p>\n

She went on to study composition at Seoul National University, and later, with Gy\u00f6rgy Ligeti at the Hochschule f\u00fcr Musik und Theater Hamburg.<\/p>\n

Her work has been recognized by several international award wins, including:<\/p>\n