Chinary Ung Receives Koussevitzky Commission for New Del Sol Piece

Library of Congress Koussevitzky Foundation Announces 2005 Commission Winners

The Serge Koussevitzky Music Foundation in the Library of Congress and the Koussevitzky Music Foundation Inc. have awarded commissions for new musical works to nine composers. The commissions are granted jointly by the foundations and the performing organizations that will present the newly composed works.

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Chinary Ung will write a new work for the San Francisco-based Del Sol String Quartet. This marks the third Koussevitzky award for Ung, whose earlier commissions were for mezzo-soprano and chamber ensemble ("Mohori," 1973) and for wind quintet ("Spiral VII," 1994). Born in Cambodia, Ung came to the United States in 1964 to attend the Manhattan School of Music, where he received degrees in clarinet performance before earning his doctorate in composition at Columbia University. In 1989 he became the first American to win the coveted Grawemeyer Award for his "Inner Voices," commissioned by the Philadelphia Orchestra. Published exclusively by C.F. Peters, his music is recorded on the CRI, New World and Argo labels. Ung is professor of composition at the University of California, San Diego.

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