Discipline: Music Composition

Chinary Ung

Discipline: Music Composition
Region: Astoria, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1977
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Chinary Ung is a composer. 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, UCSD promoted Ung to the rank of distinguished professor. He currently holds the position of Presidential Fellow: Senior Composer in Residence at Chapman University in Orange, California.

Studios

Phi Beta

Chinary Ung worked in the Phi Beta studio.

Funded by the Phi Beta Fraternity, a national professional fraternity of music and speech founded in 1912, Phi Beta Studio was built between 1929–1931 of granite quarried on the MacDowell grounds. The small studio is a simple in design, but displays a pleasing combination of materials with its granite walls and colorful slate roofing. Inside is…

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