02/01/2024
ACMI 2024 Keynote Speaker : Dr. Chinary Ung
Dr. Chinary Ung holds appointments at University of California, San Diego, where he is Distinguished Professor of Music, and at Chapman University, where he is a Presidential Fellow and Senior Composer in Residence. He and his wife Susan direct the Nirmita Composers Institute each summer, with the goal of providing compositional direction and opportunity to musicians from Southeast Asia. Dr. Ung is also a scholar on the traditional music of Cambodia and Southeast Asia and lectures widely across the country and abroad on both his native music and his compositions. He is the founder and President of The Khmer Studies Institute which has sponsored publications, videotapes, as well as several recordings put out on the Folkways label. Dr. Ung's work has been honoured by multiple institutions, including The Academy of Arts and Letters, Meet the Composer/Reader’s Digest Commissioning Program, The National Endowment for the Arts, and the Guggenheim, Koussevitsky, Ford, Rockefeller, and Barlow Foundations. In 1989, Dr. Ung was the first American to receive the international Grawemeyer Award for his orchestral tone poem “Inner Voices”. Many chamber ensembles have commissioned and performed Dr. Ung’s works, and he has received performances by orchestras and ensembles across the globe. Dr. Ung has had compositions recorded on the CRI, New World, and Argo labels.
For a more comprehensive introduction to this wonderful artist, please head to : http://www.chinaryung.com/about.html
