Chinary Ung

Chinary Ung (b. November 24, 1942, Takéo, Cambodia) is a composer now living in the United States. After arriving in the United States in 1964 to study the clarinet, Ung studied composition with Chou Wen-chung and Mario Davidovsky. Ung is noted for combining traditional Cambodian musical elements with western instrumentation. Ung currently teaches at the University of California, San Diego. In October, 2007, the Del Sol String Quartet was invited to play the Library of Congress' collection of Stradivarius instruments and debut the world premiere of Chinary Ung's Spiral X.

Awards

• Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition (1989) for Inner Voices
• Friedheim Award (1989) for Spiral
• American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters (1981, 1988)

List of selected works

• 1970 - Tall Wind, for soprano and chamber ensemble
• 1974 - Mohori, for soprano and chamber ensemble
• 1980 - Khse Buon, for solo cello or viola
• 1986 - Inner Voices, for orchestra
• 1987 - Spiral, for cello, piano, and percussion
• 1989 - Spiral II, for soprano, tuba, and piano
• 1990 - Grand Spiral: Desert Flowers Bloom, for symphonic band
• 1992 - Spiral VI, for clarinet, violin, cello, and piano
• 1995 - Antiphonal Spirals, for orchestra
• 1997 - Seven Mirrors, for solo piano

External links

• Profile at Columbia
• Profile at UCSD
• The Ensemble Sospeso

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Name	Ung, Chinary
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Date of birth	November 24, 1942
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