Discipline: Music Composition

Stella Sung

Discipline: Music Composition
Region: Orlando, FL
MacDowell Fellowships: 1997
More: www.stellasung.com
Stella Sung is a national and international award-winning composer whose works are performed throughout the U.S. and abroad. As a recipient of a "Music Alive" award, a three-year award sponsored by New Music USA, the League of American Orchestras, ASCAP, the Aaron Copland Fund, and the Andrew Mellon Foundation, Dr. Sung recently served as composer-in-residence (2013-16) with the Dayton (OH) Performing Arts Alliance (Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra, Dayton Ballet, and Dayton Opera). During the course of her three-year residency, she created new works for orchestra, ballet, and opera. The DPAA was one of five, nationally selected cohort recipients of the "Music Alive" award residencies, during which composers and orchestras collaborated to create new, innovative works that engaged communities and artists during the residencies. Dr. Sung was the first Composer-in-Residence for the Orlando (FL) Philharmonic Orchestra, (2008-2011), and continues to serve as Composer-in-Residence for Dance Alive National Ballet (Gainesville, FL). Since 2003, Sung has been using digital and multi-media applications in her concert and symphonic compositions, music for dance and ballet, and recent operas that include the use of advanced projection techniques and other stage design concepts using technology.

Studios

Veltin

Stella Sung worked in the Veltin studio.

Veltin Studio was donated by alumni of the Veltin School, a school for girls in New York with a highly respected visual arts department. As the plaque just outside the entrance attests, this studio was used by poet Edwin Arlington Robinson during most of the 24 summers he spent at MacDowell. Perhaps most famously, Thornton Wilder put the finishing…

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