Younghi Pagh-Paan (born 1945) is a South Korean composer.
Life
Pagh‑Paan was born in
Cheongju
Cheongju () is the capital and largest city of North Chungcheong Province in South Korea.
History
Cheongju has been an important provincial town since ancient times. In the Cheongju Mountains, specifically in the one where Sangdang Sanseong is ...
,
Chungcheongbuk-do
North Chungcheong Province ( ko, 충청북도, ''Chungcheongbuk-do''), also known as Chungbuk, is a province of South Korea. North Chungcheong has a population of 1,578,934 (2014) and has a geographic area of located in the Hoseo region in the ...
,
South Korea
South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korean Peninsula and sharing a land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed by the Yellow Sea, while its eas ...
. She studied music at the
Seoul National University from 1965 to 1971. In 1974 she received a
DAAD scholarship to study in
Germany
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and entered the Freiburg Musikhochschule, where she studied composition with
Klaus Huber, analysis with
Brian Ferneyhough, music theory with
Peter Förtig and piano with
Edith Picht-Axenfeld
Edith Picht-Axenfeld (Freiburg im Breisgau, 1 January 1914 – Hinterzarten, 19 April 2001) was a German pianist and harpsichordist.
Career
She started her concert career in 1935, and took part two years later in the III International Chopin Pian ...
.
After completing her studies, she took guest professorships at
Graz in 1991 and
Karlsruhe
Karlsruhe ( , , ; South Franconian: ''Kallsruh'') is the third-largest city of the German state (''Land'') of Baden-Württemberg after its capital of Stuttgart and Mannheim, and the 22nd-largest city in the nation, with 308,436 inhabitants. ...
in 1992–93. In 1994 she became a professor of composition at the
University of the Arts Bremen
The University of the Arts Bremen (German: Hochschule für Künste Bremen, HfK Bremen) is a public university in Bremen, Germany. It is one of the most successful arts institutions, and its origins date back to 1873. The University of the Arts Br ...
. She founded and serves as director of Atelier Neue Musik.
She was one of the top 10 performed composers on the ''Internationalen Ferienkurse für Neue Musik'' between 1946 and 2014''.''
Honors and awards
*1978 1st Prize at the 5th Composers Seminar in Boswil (Switzerland)
*1979 1st Prize at the
International Rostrum of Composers The International Rostrum of Composers (IRC) is an annual forum organized by the International Music Council that offers broadcasting representatives the opportunity to exchange and publicize pieces of contemporary classical music. It is funded by c ...
(Unesco, Pads)
*1979 Nan‑Pa Music Prize, Korea
*1980 1st Prize of the City of Stuttgart
*1980/1981 Scholarship at the Südwestfunk's Heinrich‑Strobel-Stiftung
*1985 Scholarship from the Kunststiftung of Baden-Württemberg
*1995 Heidelberg Artists Prize
*2006 Lifetime Achievement Award of Seoul National University
*2007 Order of Civil Merit of the Republic of Korea (South Korea)
*2009 15th KBS Global Korean Award
*2009 Member of the
Akademie der Künste, Berlin
*2020
Berliner Kunstpreis
The ''Berliner Kunstpreis'' (Berlin Art Prize), officially Großer Berliner Kunstpreis, is a prize for the arts by the City of Berlin. It was first awarded in 1948 in several fields of art. Since 1971, it has been awarded by the Academy of Arts ( ...
Works
Her works include:
*1971 ''PA-MUN''
*1975 ''Dreisam-Nore''
*1977 ''Man-Nam I''
*1977/86 ''MAN-NAM II''
*1977/2005 ''Man-Nam III''
*1979 ''NUN''
*1979 ''Sori''
*1981 ''Madi''
*1982 ''PYON-KYONG''
*1983 ''Flammenzeichen (Sign of the Flames)''
*1984 ''AA-GA I''
*1984/85 ''NO-UL''
*1985 HIN-NUN I''
*1986/87 ''NIM''
*1987/88 ''TA-RYONG II''
*1988/89 ''HWANG-TO / Yellow Earth''
*1988/98 ''TA-RYONG VI''
*1989–1998 ''HWANG-TO II''
*1990 ''ma-am (Mein Herz)''
*1990/91 ''MA-UM''
*1991 ''TA-RYONG IV''
*1991 ''TSI-SHIN / TA-RYONG III''
*1991 ''Mein Herz''
*1992 ''U-MUL / The Well''
*1992/94 ''Rast in einem alten Kloster''
*1992/1993 ''BIDAN-SIL / Silk Thread''
*1993 ''HANG-SANG I''
*1993/94 ''TSI-SHIN-KUT / The Ritual of the Earth Spirit''
*1994 ''HANG-SANG II''
*1995 ''TA-RYONG V''
*1995/96 ''SOWON / The Wish''
*1996 ''NE MA-UM''
*1996 ''NOCH...''
*1997 ''Die Insel schwimmt''
*1997 ''In dunkeln Träumen...''
*1997/98 ''GO-UN NIM''
*1998 ''sowon...borira''
*1999 ''BI-YU''
*1999/2000 ''IO''
*2000 ''Roaring Hooves''
*2000/01 ''Dorthin, wo der Himmel endet''
*2002 ''Louise Labé''
*2002 ''Silbersaiten''
*2003 ''Moira''
*2004/05 ''Wundgeträumt''
*2005 ''Hin-Nun II / White Snow''
*2006 ''Mondschatten (Moon Shadow)''
*2007 ''Bleibt in mir und ich in euch''
*2007 ''Das Universum atmet, es wächst und schwindet''
*2007 ''Gi-da-ryu-ra / Warte nur''
*2007 ''In luce ambulemus''
*2007 ''Qui-Han-Nim / Edler Mann''
*2007 ''Vide Domine, vide afflictionem nostram''
*2008 ''Fanfare''
*2008 ''I thirst''
*2009 ''Attende, Domine, miserecordiam tuam''
*2009 ''Den Müttern''
*2009 ''Silbersaiten III''
*2009 ''Unterm Sternenlicht''
*2010 ''Im Lichte wollen wir wandeln''
*2010 ''Silbersaiten II''
*2010 ''Silbersaiten''
*2010/2011 ''Hohes und tiefes Licht''
External links
Official site including list of works, biographical information etc.Publisher's website: Younghi Pagh-Paan at Ricordi Berlin
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Pagh-Paan, Younghi
1945 births
Living people
20th-century classical composers
South Korean music educators
People from North Chungcheong Province
Seoul National University alumni
South Korean classical composers
South Korean expatriates in Germany
Women classical composers
Recipients of the Order of Civil Merit (Korea)
Members of the Academy of Arts, Berlin
International Rostrum of Composers prize-winners
Women music educators
20th-century women composers