Draft:Peter S. Shin

Peter S. Shin
Born (1991-10-15) October 15, 1991 (age 34)
Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.
Alma mater
OccupationComposer
Awards
Websitewww.peter-shin.com

Peter Seajong Shin (신세종), known professionally as Peter S. Shin, is an American composer. His 8-part vocal work, Bits torn from words, written for Roomful of Teeth was one of four premiere recordings on the GRAMMY Award-winning[1] album, Rough Magic.[2]

In 2025, he was honored with a Guggenheim Fellowship[3] and a Hodder Fellowship[4] at Princeton University. Other honors include both the American Academy of Arts and Letters Charles Ives Scholarship (2023[5]) and Charles Ives Fellowship (2023[6]), Harvard University Fromm Foundation commission (2019[7]), and a MacDowell Fellowship (2025[8]).

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In a review for The New York Times, chief classical music critic Anthony Tommasini wrote about the premiere of Shin’s orchestral work Slant, performed by the New York Youth Symphony in 2018. Tommasini described the piece as “gripping music that boldly shifts from pointillist bursts to whooshing sound effects to eerie passages of wafting string lines,” adding that Shin “manages to pull off something very difficult: evoking a past master’s distinctive voice while sounding entirely fresh and personal.” He concluded, “Mr. Shin is a composer to watch.”[9]

References

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  1. ^ www.grammy.com
  2. ^ program note at www.roomfulofteeth.org
  3. ^ 2025 list at www.gf.org
  4. ^ "Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton announces five Hodder Fellows for 2025-26". 12 December 2024.
  5. ^ [1] at www.artsandletters.org
  6. ^ [2] at www.artsandletters.org
  7. ^ "Peter S. Shin | Fromm Music Foundation".
  8. ^ [3] at www.macdowell.org
  9. ^ Tommasini, Anthony (June 1, 2018). "A 50-Year Run: The Week in Classical Music". The New York Times. Retrieved October 15, 2025.
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