Total Immersion: Unsuk Chin

Don’t miss the UK premiere of Unsuk Chin’s Šu (2009), set in company with three other extraordinarily inventive explorations of musical timbre and texture. Shifting tone colours, bold percussion outbursts and exquisite flecks of sound shimmer on the constantly evolving surface of Rocaná (2008), a work simply described by the New York Times as ‘a knockout’. Critical and audience reactions to the composer’s Violin Concerto (2001) underline the Grawemeyer Award
winning score’s status among essential 21st-century compositions. Kalá, first performed in 2001 under the direction of Peter Eötvös, deftly employs solo and choral voices to enrich the composer’s beguiling approach to musical sound .