Unsuk Chin has been selected as the Grand Prize winner of the 14th Daewon Music Awards, the Daewon Culture Foundation announced Wednesday. Pianist Sunwoo Yekwon received the Performance Award, while violinist Kim Seo-hyun was named recipient of the Emerging Artist Award, which honors promising young musicians. Chin is regarded as the most internationally acclaimed Korean composer since Isang Yun (1917-1925). Over the years, she has elevated the global standing of Korean classical music through a string of prestigious honors, including the Grawemeyer Award (2004), the Arnold Schoenberg Prize (2005), the Prince Pierre of Monaco Composition Prize (2010), the Wihuri Sibelius Prize (2017), the Hamburg Bach Prize (2019), the Marie-Josée Kravis Prize (2020), the Léonie Sonning Music Prize (2021) and the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize (2024). Last year, Chin won the Contemporary Music Recording Award at the International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) for the Berliner Philharmoniker’s “Unsuk Chin Edition.” In March this year, she also became the first Korean recipient of the BBVA Foundati
May 13, 2026
