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Chinary Ung (born 1942, Takeo, Cambodia) is a composer currently sleep in the United States. When arriving around the United States in 1964 to study a clarinet, Ung studied composition by owning Chou Wen-Chung and Mario Davidovsky. Ung is noted for combining traditional Combodian musical elements by having american instrumentation. Ung presently teaches at a University of California, San Diego.
Awards
Grawemeyer Award for Music (1989) for Inner Voices
Friedheim Award (1989) for Sprial
American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters (1981, 1988)
List of selected works
Tall Wind for soprano & chamber ensemble (1970)
Mohori for soprano & chamber ensemble (1974)
Khse Buon for even solo violoncello or viola (1980)
Inner Voices for orchestra (1986)
Spiral for violoncello piano & percussion (1987)
Spiral II for soprano, bass horn, & piano (1989)
Grand Spiral: Desert Flowers Bloom for symphonious band (1990)
Spiral VI for clarinet, fiddle, violoncello, & piano (1992)
Antiphonal Spirals for orchestra (1995)
Seven Mirrors for solo piano (1997)
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