The Happenstancers announces its program “BABES IN TOYLAND.” The concert features works by Unsuk Chin, W.A. Mozart, the world premiere of new music for voice and ensemble by Matthew Ricketts, as well as the Canadian premiere of works by Anna Clyne, and Ryan Chase. Performers include soprano Reilly Nelson and a roster of Canadian instrumentalists, led by conductor Simon Rivard. “‘BABES {…}
South Korean composer Unsuk Chin has been awarded the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize presented by the Swiss-based Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation. The award is given to a composer, performer, or musicologist, who has made exceptional contributions to the music industry. Chin will be awarded the prize on May 18, 2024 at Munich’s Herkules Hall, where her works will be {…}
“Alice in Wonderland” is a eight-scene, contemporary opera by Korean composer Unsuk Chin (1961-) with the libretto co-written by Chin and eminent Chinese-American writer David Henry Hwang, the librettist for other composers such as Huang Ro, Osvaldo Golijov, and Phillip Glass. The opera was composed between 2004 and 2007 and based upon the novels Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and {…}