Introspective, referential, and observant, the music of Peter S. Shin 신세종 (b. 1991) strives in reach of others. His work investigates issues of social and national belonging, the co-opting and intermingling of disparate musical vernaculars, and the liminality between the two halves of his second-generation Korean-U.S. American identity. The New York Times described him as “a composer to watch” and his music “entirely fresh and personal” following his premiere at Carnegie Hall.
Highlights include a performance of his electroacoustic dance work Screaming Shapes at the Walt Disney Concert Hall; an orchestral commission by John Adams and Deborah O’Grady for the Cabrillo Festival; the chamber orchestral work Hyo commissioned by the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra which explores his family’s immigration story; and the on-going “Hallyu Interventions” series which contends with the globalization of South Korean contemporary culture known as the hallyu wave via the sounds of K-Pop.
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