Younghi Pagh-Paan

Younghi Pagh-Paan
Hangul 박영희
Hanja 朴泳姬[1]
Revised Romanization Bak Yeonghui
McCune–Reischauer Pak Yǒnghǔi

Younghi Pagh-Paan (born 1945) is a South Korean composer.

Life

Pagh‑Paan was born in Cheongju, Chungcheongbuk-do, South Korea.[2] She studied music at the Seoul National University from 1965-71. In 1974 she received a DAAD scholarship to study in Germany and entered the Freiburg Musikhochschule, where she studied composition with Klaus Huber, analysis with Brian Ferneyhough, music theory with Peter Förtig and piano with Edith Picht-Axenfeld.[3]

After completing her studies, she took guest professorships at Graz in 1991 and Karlsruhe in 1992-93. In 1994 she became a professor of composition at Hochschule der Künste in Bremen. She founded and serves as director of Atelier Neue Musik.[4]

Honors and awards

Works

Her works include:

External links

References

  1. 姜恩秀 [Gang Eunsu], "作曲家朴泳姬,用音乐到达 "大笑"的境界 [Composer Younghi Pagh, using music to reach a state of 'laughter']", Koreana 17 (3), pp. 66–69, retrieved 2011-09-26
  2. Pagh-Pan, Younghi. "초상". pagh-paan.com. Retrieved 2011-09-26.
  3. Pagh-Pan, Younghi. "Biography". pagh-paan.com. Retrieved 30 November 2010.
  4. Sadie, Julie Anne; Samuel, Rhian (1994). The Norton/Grove dictionary of women composers (Digitized online by GoogleBooks). Retrieved 4 October 2010.
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