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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...
...journey has been difficult. In addition to monetary constraints and public apathy, “composition can be the most frustrating thing in the world,” Cheung says. However, he remains optimistic. “It’s in those rare instances when someone tells you that what you’ve done has affected them that gives a composer the sense of having made a difference,” he says. “The challenge and reward is refining your craft...
...Cheung points to his guidance over the past four years from professors Robinson Professor of Music Robert D. Levin ’68 and Rosen Professor of Music Bernard Rands as his most fullfilling academic experience. He says their work with piano and composition continues to inspire him today...
Next year will find Cheung at Columbia University in the graduate program in composition. “I’m looking forward to hearing all the exciting new music that’s being presented in New York,” he says. Beyond that remains unclear, though he says he hopes to teach and write. In any case, he points to the uncertainty as part of the excitement...