Ung, Chinary (1942)

Chinary Ung. Picture by Max Steinberg.

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GENERAL INFO

Description: Chinary Ung is a composer from Cambodia who currently resides in California. He is Doctor of Musical Arts from Columbia University, and won the Grawemeyer Award for musical composition in 1988. In his compositions he introduces Asian pentatonic scales and melodies fused with avant-garde classical music thanks to the use of microtonality and heterophony. Chinary has spent a decade studying Cambodian music composition.
Sex: Male. Occupation: Composer, clarinetist.
Place of Birth / Death: Takéo, Cambodia. Country Tags: Cambodia. United States.
Periods: XX-XXI Genres: Avant-Garde music, instrumental music, choral music, vocal music, symphonic music, chamber music.
Styles: Classical music, Avant-garde, Atonalism, Microtonality, Heterophony, Cambodian music. School / Group: Columbia University, Manhattan School of Music
Instruments: Clarinet Relatives: –
Patrons: – Master: Chou Wen-chung, Mario Davidovsky

 

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