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...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...
...experience was eye opening. “I remember opening the score to the ‘Rite of Spring,’” Cheung says. “I had never seen anything like it in my life. After somehow following the score with a recording, it was a total out-of-body experience.” It was moments like these that convinced Cheung that music was indeed his calling...
...Cheung says his style has become more consistent over the years but is still developing. He draws influence from “everything in the Western tradition” but is partial to French music after Debussy and jazz of all kinds. “You are what you hear, and I hope to be hearing a lot more unfamiliar music that will influence my future work,” he says...