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Premiere of the Month: Donghoon Shin’s new viola concerto for Amihai Grosz

2024-12-19T21:01:00

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D flat major forms the basis of a new viola concerto

‘A recording of the Berlin Philharmonic playing Mahler’s Ninth Symphony is what made me want to be a classical composer,’ says South Korean composer Donghoon Shin, whose viola concerto Threadsuns takes inspiration from the symphony’s D flat major Adagio finale, which was commissioned by the very same orchestra with its principal violist Amihai Grosz as soloist. Threadsuns is also inspired by the German poem of the same name by poet Paul Celan…

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