Anthony Cheung

Composer and pianist Anthony Cheung writes music that explores the senses, a wide palette of instrumental play and affect, improvisational traditions, reimagined musical artifacts, and multiple layers of textual meaning. Described as “gritty, inventive and wonderfully assured” (San Francisco Chronicle) and praised for its “instrumental sensuality” (Chicago Tribune), his music reveals an interest in the ambiguity of sound sources and constantly shifting transformations of tuning and timbre. The recipient of a Rome Prize (2012) and Guggenheim Fellowship (2016), he has been commissioned by leading groups such as the Ensemble Modern, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Cleveland Orchestra (as the Daniel R. Lewis Young Composer Fellow), Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble Musikfabrik, International Contemporary Ensemble, violinist Jennifer Koh, flutist Claire Chase, pianists Shai Wosner and Gilles Vonsattel, and the Spektral and Escher quartets. His work “Lyra” was commissioned for the New York Philharmonic at the request of Henri Dutilleux, as part of the orchestra’s inaugural Kravis Prize for New Music. His music has also been performed by the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Chicago Symphony Orchestra (MusicNOW series), Minnesota Orchestra, Ensemble Linea, wild Up, Atlas Ensemble, Taipei Chinese Orchestra, Dal Niente, and many others. He was co-founder, pianist, and artistic director of the Talea Ensemble.website: www.acheungmusic.com