Anna Korsun

Composers

Anna Korsun (1986, Ukraine) is a composer, sound artist, and performer based in Germany.

She studied composition in Kyiv and Munich with Moritz Eggert.

She works for different formations from solo to orchestra, including acoustic instruments, voice, electronics, and sounding objects. She collaborates with visual arts, dance, theater, and literature. Anna involves both professional and amateur musicians in her works, as well as non-musicians. Besides her activities as an artist, Anna performs contemporary music as a vocalist/keyboardist, directs musical projects, and teaches composition at Amsterdam conservatory, as well as at international courses.

She participated at international festivals such as eclat, Darmstädter Ferienkurse, ISCM, Warsaw Autumn, Festival Musica Strasbourg, worked with Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, SWR Vokalensemble, ensemble mosaik, ascolta, ensemble modern, AskoSchoenberg, Camerata Silesia, Silbersee, Bavarian Academy of Theater August Everding, Ludwik-Solski-Academy for performing arts in Krakow, LOH-Orchester, Thüringer Symphoniker. She was an artist-in-residence at Villa Massimo in Rome, Residency for New Music Goethe Institute Canada, Academy Schloss Solitude, Cité internationale des arts in Paris, and others.

Awards

2019 Vierteljahrespreis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik, Germany
2019 Open Ear Award of Trillende Lucht Foundation, Netherlands
2018 Kunstpreis Berlin, Germany
2017 Christoph and Stephan Kaske Foundation Prize, Munich, Germany
2017 1st Prize of Sondershäuser Competition, Sondershausen, Germany
2014 Winner of Gaudeamus Musiс Prize, Netherlands
2014 Laureate of Harald-Henzmer competition, Germany
2014 Laureate of 8. pre-art competition, Switzerland
2013 Laureate of Neue Tone competition, Germany
2012 Leonhard und Ida Wolf-Gedaechtnispreise, Munich, Germany

Selected works

In The Cage for string quartet, cembalo, sound objects and metal fence (2022)

Performers: Quartetto Maurice

17 June 2022, Musica in Prossimità, Pinerolo, Italy

youtu.be/x9RfL4uFzrs

SIGNALS for Megaphone Choir (2019)

Managing Director – Thorsten Hinz, MEGAPHONE CHOIR: Johannes v. Buttlar, Madeline Cain, Anne-Victoria Coat, Ji Eun Kim, Tobias Hamann, Barnabas Herrmann, Sonja Horlacher, Hugo José Couto Paiva, Michiko Saiki, Zachary Seely, Mrika Sefa, Yuliia Vash, Flavio Virzi, Hernán Atilio Vuga

5 and 6 September 2020, Bergbau Technik Park, Leipzig, Germany

youtu.be/BkQqoIVgYmc

Sottilissime for singing string trio (2019)

Performers: Distractfold Ensemble

5 October 2019, Bludenzer Tage zeitgemäßer Musik, Austria

youtu.be/1Be12wb9sJQ

Ulenflucht for 20 performers (2016)

Performers: vocal ensembles Voxnova Italia and EVO Ensemble, director Tonino Battista

10 March 2019, Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri in Rome, Italy.

youtu.be/hojPlOvSakI

Spleen for singing ensemble (2019)

Performers: ensemble mosaic Spleen