composer
Biography:
Younghi Pagh Paan was born in Cheongju (now South Korea) in 1945. With a scholarship from the DAAD, she came to Germany in 1974 to continue her studies with Klaus Huber at the Musikhochschule in Freiburg. With her orchestral piece Sori she gained broad public recognition at the Donaueschinger Musiktage in 1980. After guest professorships at the music academies in Graz and Karlsruhe, she was appointed professor of composition at the Bremen University of the Arts in 1994 – as the first woman in Germany. There she founded the "Atelier Neue Musik", which she headed until 2011.
Younghi Pagh-Paan has received international awards: Seoul National University Lifetime Achievement Award (2006), Order of Civil Merit of the Republic of Korea/South Korea (2007), 15th KBS Global Korean Award (2009). In May 2009 she was elected to the Academy of Arts in Berlin. In 2011 the Senate of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen awarded her the Senate Medal for Art and Science, in 2013 she received the Paiknam Prize (Seoul) for her life's work, in 2015 the Prize for European Church Music, in 2017 the Special Contribution Prize of the Dawon Music Awards and in 2018 the FEM -Needle of the German Composers Association. The Government of South Korea honored Pagh-Paan with a Bogwan Order for Cultural Merit in 2018. In 2020 she received the Great Art Prize Berlin.
Since 1980 her works have been published by G. Ricordi & Co. Berlin. In 2013 she handed over the documents of her compositional work to the Paul Sacher Foundation in Basel, where they are permanently archived and made accessible to international music research.
Younghi Pagh-Paan lives in Bremen and Panicale (Italy).
Albums:
Isao Nakamura plays Works for Solo Percussion:
musica viva festival munich 2008:
