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Anna Korsun

b. 1986 · Ukraine

Anna Korsun, composer

Anna Korsun (b. 1986, Donetsk) combines musical composition with installation, performance, and sound art, writing for ensembles from soloist to orchestral scale using acoustic instruments, voice, electronics, and sounding objects. She has collaborated with ensembles including Neue Vokalsolisten Stuttgart, ensemble mosaik, ensemble modern, and AskoSchönberg, performs as a vocalist and keyboardist, and teaches composition at the Amsterdam Conservatory and at international courses. She has appeared at festivals including ECLAT and ISCM and worked with the Thüringer Symphoniker, held an artist residency at the Villa Massimo in Rome and further residencies with the New Music Goethe Institute Canada, Kunstpreis Berlin and the Open Ear / Trillende Lucht Foundation, and was awarded the Gaudeamus Award.

Acoustic instrumentsVoiceElectronicsOrchestralChamber

Awards

  • Christoph und Stephan Kaske Foundation Prize
  • Gaudeamus Award
  • Kunstpreis Berlin
  • Open Ear, Trillende Lucht Foundation

Performed at UCMF

Wehmut

UCMF 2020 · Composers' Roundtable · Mar 1 · Vocal

dedicated to Robert Schumann; vocal ensemble with violin, bass and piano

Performed by Jennifer Gliere (Soprano), Joanna Mieleszko (Voice I), Anna Korsun (Voice II), Heather O'Donovan (Voice III), Joshua Miller (Voice IV), Iryna Kit (Violin), Tristan Kasten-Krause (Double bass), Alexander Chaplinskiy (Piano)

Wehmut by Anna Korsun was written for a project dedicated to Robert Schumann. “I would describe the piece as a surrealistic world of co-existing parallel lives, where the noise part is placed on the forefront, seeming thus more realistic, and the melody part comes from another, far illusive world.”

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