Unsuk Chin in Conversation
29 May 2026, 6:30 PM
Let’s get straight to it, before we divert you
How much does a ticket cost? Free entry to the discussion for holders of a Prague Offspring pass or ticket for the concert at 8 pm.
Discussion is a part of the Prague Spring festival 2026.
Multifunctional hall DOX+
Poupětova 3, Praha 7
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Public interview with Unsuk Chin, Prague Offspring Composer-in-Residence, holder of the Grawemeyer Award and the Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung Preis, hosted by the festival’s Artistic Director, Josef Třeštík.
“My music is a reflection of my dreams,” says the Composer-in-Residence of Prague Offspring 2026 Unsuk Chin (*1961). “I try to render into music the visions of immense light and visions of an incredible magnificence of colours that I see in all my dreams, a play of light and colours floating through the room and at the same time forming a fluid sound sculpture. Its beauty is very abstract and remote, but it is for these very qualities that it addresses the emotions and can communicate joy and warmth.”
Programme
Unsuk Chin: Advice from a Caterpillar for solo bass clarinet
Artists
Jaan Bossier – bass clarinet
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