The TIME:SPANS Festival announced Anthony Cheung as a featured composer in two concerts, with performances by the Spektral Quartet, Talea Ensemble, Claire Chase, Miranda Cuckson, Gilles Vonsattel, Stephen Gosling, and Anthony Cheung. The concerts, which were to have taken place in August 2020, have been postponed to August 27-28, 2021.

Ensemble Modern premiered Anthony Cheung’s piece A line can go anywhere (Concerto for Piano and Ensemble) at the Kölner Philharmonie, Germany. The work, commissioned for the 40th Anniversary of the Ensemble Modern, featured soloist Ueli Wiget and was conducted by Franck Ollu. It was repeated on January 13 at the Alte Oper, Frankfurt.

Anthony Cheung releases a new portrait album, Cycles and Arrows, on New Focus Recordings in August 2018. Featuring performances of solo and chamber works by the Spektral Quartet with flutist Claire Chase and pianist Winston Choi, International Contemporary Ensemble with violist Maiya Papach, Atlas Ensemble, and oboist Ernest Rombout. Conducted by Karina Canellakis, Artjom Kim, and Anthony Cheung. Available on Amazon, Bandcamp, Apple/iTunes, Spotify, etc.

The Cleveland Orchestra and Music Director Franz Welser-Möst will give the world premiere performances of Topos, a new work by Anthony Cheung, at the Orchestra’s Severance Hall concerts May 18 and 20, 2017. 

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In its ninety-second competition for the United States and Canada, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has awarded 175 Fellowships (including three joint Fellowships) to a diverse group of 178 scholars, artists, and scientists. Appointed on the basis of prior achievement and exceptional promise, the successful candidates were chosen from a group of nearly 3,000 applicants.

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