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ANTHONY S. CHEUNG...
Last weekend found Anthony S. Cheung ’04, this year’s recipient of the Louis Sudler Prize in the Arts, in Minnesota, where the state orchestra performed a piece he has been working on for the past two years. It was the first time he actually heard it played. “It’s the greatest feeling in the world to actually hear your music come to life in such away,” he writes in an e-mail...
...experience is not new for Cheung, who is also a Crimson editor. The Sudler Prize recognizes outstanding artistic talent and achievement in composition or performance, and over the past four years, Cheung has won a slew of awards for his compositions...
...Cheung is part of the Harvard-Radcliffe Contemporary Music Ensemble, a group of composers and instrumentalists. “As a composer myself, it’s always a full-time job on top of the academic load,” he says...
...Cheung began playing piano at six, and started composing shortly thereafter. He calls his first work “little imitations of the stuff I was learning, like sonatas in the style of Mozart or nocturnes.” When he was 12, he began learning with a composition teacher...