Anthony Cheung
Anthony Cheung is an American composer and pianist, born in San Francisco in 1982. He studied music and history at Harvard and took his doctorate at Columbia University. Cheung co-founded the Talea Ensemble in New York, where he has played piano and served as artistic director, and he is associate professor of music at Brown University. Cheung was a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows, taught at the University of Chicago from 2013 to 2020 and held the Cleveland Orchestra's Daniel R. Lewis Composer Fellowship.
Music for Film, Sculpture, and Captions
If you enter into the music of Martin Smolka, prepare yourself to come face-to-face with profound and enigmatic conflicts. The music of Martin Smolka resonates straight into the core of a suffocated planet, suffering through unending catastrophes in the political-social spheres. The Aleph Guitar Quartet and soprano Daisy Press present a selection from Smolka's oeuvre that spans almost 25 years.
Dystemporal
Six works (2005-2012) by Anthony Cheung in first recordings: Talea Ensemble under James Baker, Cheung on piano, and Dystemporal live by the Ensemble Intercontemporain under Susanna Mälkki (Paris, October 2012). Wergo, 2016.