Life

Pagh‑Paan was born in Cheongju

Cheongju

Cheongju is the capital city of Chungcheongbuk-do , South Korea. The city is divided into two wards , Heungdeok-gu and Sangdang-gu .-History:...

, Chungcheongbuk-do

Chungcheongbuk-do

Chungcheongbuk-do is a province in the centre of South Korea. It was formed in 1896 from the northeastern half of the former Chungcheong province...

, South Korea

South Korea

The Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...

. She studied music at the Seoul National University

Seoul National University

Seoul National University , colloquially known in Korean as Seoul-dae , is a national research university in Seoul, Korea, ranked 24th in the world in publications in an analysis of data from the Science Citation Index, 7th in Asia and 42nd in the world by the 2011 QS World University Rankings...

 from 1965-71. In 1974 she received a DAAD

German Academic Exchange Service

The German Academic Exchange Service or DAAD is the largest German support organisation in the field of international academic co-operation....

 scholarship to study in Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 and entered the Freiburg Musikhochschule, where she studied composition with Klaus Huber

Klaus Huber

Klaus Huber is a Swiss composer.Huber was born in Bern, Switzerland. One of the leading figures of his generation in Europe, he has written extensively for chamber ensembles, choirs, soloists and the orchestra as well as the theater...

, analysis with Brian Ferneyhough

Brian Ferneyhough

Brian John Peter Ferneyhough is an English composer. His music is characterized by the extensive use of complex rhythmic tuplet notation which features in all his works...

, music theory with Peter Förtig and piano with Edith Picht-Axenfeld

Edith Picht-Axenfeld

Edith Picht-Axenfeld was a German pianist and harpsichordist.She started her concert career in 1935, and took part two years later in the third Fryderyk Chopin Competition, where she was awarded a 6th prize; this launched her career...

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After completing her studies, she took guest professorships at Graz

Graz

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 in 1991 and Karlsruhe

Karlsruhe

The City of Karlsruhe is a city in the southwest of Germany, in the state of Baden-Württemberg, located near the French-German border.Karlsruhe was founded in 1715 as Karlsruhe Palace, when Germany was a series of principalities and city states...

 in 1992-93. In 1994 she became a professor of composition at Hochschule der Künste in Bremen

Bremen

The City Municipality of Bremen is a Hanseatic city in northwestern Germany. A commercial and industrial city with a major port on the river Weser, Bremen is part of the Bremen-Oldenburg metropolitan area . Bremen is the second most populous city in North Germany and tenth in Germany.Bremen is...

. She founded and serves as director of Atelier Neue Musik.

Honors and awards

• 2009 15th KBS Global Korean Award
• 2009 Member of the Akademie der Künste, Berlin
• 2007 Order of Civil Merit of the Republic of Korea (South Korea)
• 2006 Lifetime Archievement Award of Seoul National University
• 1995 Heidelberg Artists Prize
• 1985 Scholarship from the Kunststiftung of Baden-Württemberg
• 1980/1981 Scholarship at the Südwestfunk's Heinrich‑Strobel-Stiftung
• 1980 1st Prize of the City of Stuttgart
• 1979 1st Prize at the Rostrum of Composers (Unesco, Pads)
• 1979 Na‑Pa Music Prize, Korea
• 1978 1st Prize at the 5th Composers Seminar in Boswil (Switzerland)

Works

Her works include:

• 2010/2011 Hohes und tiefes Licht
• 2010 Im Lichte wollen wir wandeln
• 2010 Silbersaiten
• 2010 Silbersaiten II
• 2009 Silbersaiten III
• 2009 Unterm Sternenlicht
• 2009 Attende, Domine, miserecordiam tuam
• 2009 Den Müttern
• 2008 I thirst
• 2008 Fanfare
• 2007 Bleibt in mir und ich in euch
• 2007 Qui-Han-Nim / Edler Mann
• 2007 Gi-da-ryu-ra / Warte nur
• 2007 Das Universum atmet, es wächst und schwindet
• 2007 Vide Domine, vide afflictionem nostram
• 2007 In luce ambulemus
• 2006 Mondschatten (Moon Shadow)
• 200 5HANG-SANG III
• 2005 Hin-Nun II / White Snow
• 2004/05 Wundgeträumt
• 2003 Moira
• 2002 Louise Labé
• 2002 Silbersaiten
• 2000/01 Dorthin, wo der Himmel endet
• 2000 Roaring Hooves
• 1999/2000 IO
• 1999 BI-YU
• 1998 sowon...borira
• 1997/98 GO-UN NIM
• 1997 In dunkeln Träumen...
• 1997 Die Insel schwimmt
• 1996 NOCH...
• 1996 NE MA-UM
• 1995/96 SOWON / The Wish
• 1995 TA-RYONG V
• 1994 HANG-SANG II
• 1993/94 TSI-SHIN-KUT / The Ritual of the Earth Spirit
• 1993 HANG-SANG I
• 1992/94 Rast in einem alten Kloster
• 1992/1993 BIDAN-SIL / Silk Thread
• 1992 U-MUL / The Well
• 1991 TSI-SHIN / TA-RYONG III
• 1991 TA-RYONG IV
• 1991Mein Herz
• 1990/91 MA-UM
• 1990 ma-am (Mein Herz)
• 1989-1998 HWANG-TO II
• 1988/98 TA-RYONG VI
• 1988/89 HWANG-TO / Yellow Earth
• 1987/88 TA-RYONG II
• 1986/87 NIM
• 1985 HIN-NUN I
• 1984/85 NO-UL
• 1984 AA-GA I
• 1983 Flammenzeichen (Sign of the Flames)
• 1982 PYON-KYONG
• 1981 Madi
• 1979 NUN
• 1979 Sori
• 1977/86 MAN-NAM II
• 1977/2005 Man-Nam III
• 1977 Man-Nam I
• 1975 Dreisam-Nore
• 1971 PA-MUN