Composer
Biography:
Isang Yun was born in 1917 in San Chung Gun, near the South Korean port of Tong Yong. Until 1943 he studied cello and composition in Korea and Japan.
As a resistance fighter against Japanese foreign rule, he lived underground and in political imprisonment. 1946-1956 he taught at Korean high schools and universities. From 1956 to 1959 he studied in Paris and Berlin (with Boris Blacher) and took part in the international summer courses in Darmstadt.
In 1964 he moved to Berlin and acquired German citizenship in 1971. In 1967 Yun was kidnapped from Germany and was a prisoner of the Park dictatorship in South Korea until 1969, which he later fought as a politician in exile. 1969-1970 he taught at the Music Academy in Hanover; From 1970 to 1985 he held a professorship in composition at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin. He has taught courses in the USA, Japan, China, Hong Kong, North Korea and in various European countries.
Isang Yun was a member of the Academy of Arts in Berlin and Hamburg, honorary doctorate from the University of Tübingen, honorary member of the IGNM, member of the Academia Scientiarum et Artium Europaea in Salzburg and holder of the Grand Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.
He died in Berlin in 1995.
Albums:
Domenico Scarlatti and the Modern Era of the Harpsichord:
