Younghi Pagh-Paan

Younghi Pagh-Paan was born in 1945 in Cheongju, South Korea. She studied at Seoul National University before moving to Germany on a DAAD scholarship in 1974 to study at the Freiburg Musikhochschule with notable figures such as Klaus Huber, Brian Ferneyhough, and Edith Picht-Axenfeld. In the 1990s, she served as a guest professor at Graz and Karlsruhe, and she became a professor at the University of the Arts Bremen in 1994, where she also directs the Atelier Neue Musik.