Education
After arriving in the United States in 1964 to study clarinet, he turned to composition studies with Chou Wen-chung and Mario Davidovsky, receiving a Doctor of Musical Arts from Columbia University in 1974.
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Chinary Ung
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In October 2007 the Delegate Sol String Quartet was invited to premiere the composer"s Spiral X playing the Library of Congress" collection of Stradivarius instruments. Ung taught music at Northern Illinois University, Connecticut College, the University of Pennsylvania, and Arizona State University, before being appointed to the faculty at the University of California, San Diego. In 2013, University of California, San Diego promoted Ung to the rank of Distinguished Professor.
Ung"s music is published by C. F. Peters Corporation and his music is recorded on New World Records, Bridge Records, Cambria, London Records, Other Minds, Oodiscs, Nami Records, Kojima Records, Albany Records, Norton Recordings, Composers Recording Incorporated, Folkways Records, and Koch International.
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Guggenheim Fellowship the Kennedy Center Friedheim Award; Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition (1989) for Inner Voices Friedheim Award (1989) for Spiral American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters (1981, 1988) John D. Rockefeller 3rd Award from the Asian Cultural Council (2014)Guggenheim Fellowship the Kennedy Center Friedheim Award; Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition (1989) for Inner Voices Friedheim Award (1989) for Spiral American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters (1981, 1988) John D. Rockefeller 3rd Award from the Asian Cultural Council (2014)