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[Asia Economy Reporter Byunghee Park] Korean-German composer Jin Eun-sook (59, photo) has been awarded the Leonie Sonning Music Prize in Denmark.
The Leonie Sonning Music Foundation, which has been awarding this prize annually since 1959, announced on the 29th (local time) that composer Jin Eun-sook was selected as the 2021 laureate. Jin is the first Asian musician to receive this award.
The Leonie Sonning Music Prize has been awarded to notable figures such as Igor Stravinsky, the first recipient in 1959, composers like Dmitri Shostakovich, and conductors including Leonard Bernstein, Sergiu Celibidache, Rafael Kubel?k, John Eliot Gardiner, Daniel Barenboim, Mariss Jansons, and Simon Rattle, as well as performers such as Yehudi Menuhin, Gidon Kremer, Andr?s Schiff, and Mstislav Rostropovich.
Jin Eun-sook will receive a prize money of 133,000 euros (approximately 170 million KRW). The Leonie Sonning Foundation announced an increase from the previous 100,000 euros prize.
The award ceremony will be held on June 5 next year in Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark. Along with the ceremony, a concert featuring only Jin Eun-sook’s works will take place. The program will include 'Choros Kordon (Dance of the Strings)', commissioned by the Berlin Philharmonic, 'Piano Concerto', and 'Song of the Stars’ Children', composed as a commissioned work for the opening of the Lotte Concert Hall in 2016 and dedicated to the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra and former conductor Myung-whun Chung. These pieces will be performed by the Danish National Orchestra under the baton of Fabio Luisi.
Jin Eun-sook has served as a resident composer for the Berlin Deutsche Symphony Orchestra and the Seoul Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra.
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