Georgia Tech School of Music Presents:
Pivot and Change
Monday, February 20th 2023
7:30pm
Ferst Center for the Arts
Chaowen Ting, Conductor
Composer Bio – Anna Clyne
Described as a “composer of uncommon gifts and unusual methods” in a New York Times profile and as “fearless” by NPR, GRAMMY-nominated Anna Clyne is one of the most in-demand composers today, working with orchestras, choreographers, filmmakers, and visual artists around the world.
Clyne has been commissioned and presented by the world’s most dynamic and revered arts institutions, including the Barbican, Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center, Los Angeles Philharmonic, MoMA, Philharmonie de Paris, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, San Francisco Ballet, and the Sydney Opera House; and her music has opened such events as the Edinburgh International Festival, The Last Night of the Proms, and the New York Philharmonic’s 2021–2022 season.
Clyne often collaborates on creative projects across the music industry, including Between the Rooms, a film with choreographer Kim Brandstrup and LA Opera, and the Nico Project at the Manchester International Festival, a stage work about pop icon Nico’s life that featured Clyne’s reimagining of The Marble Index for orchestra and voices. Other recent collaborators include such notable musicians as Jess Gillam, Martin Fröst, Pekka Kuusisto, and Yo-Yo Ma.
In 2022–2023, Clyne serves as Composer-in-Residence with the Philharmonia Orchestra and the Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, as well as the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra starting in the 2023–2024 season. Past residencies include the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, L’Orchestre national d’Île-de-France, and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra.
Composer Bio – Stella Sung
Award-winning composer Stella Sung is published by Theodore Presser Music Publishers, Editions Henry Lemoine, Southern Music Company, and Sonic Star Music Productions, and is currently available on Koch International Recordings, BIS, Naxos, Sinfonica (Italy), MSR, and Albany Records. She was the first Composer-in-Residence for the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra (2008-2011) and was one of five composers awarded the first "Music Alive" awards (with Dayton Performing Arts Alliance, 2013-16) sponsored by New Music USA, the League of American Orchestras, the Aaron Copland fund, and the Andrew Mellon Foundation. She is the recipient of a prestigious “Commissioning Grant for Female Composers” from Opera America (2020) for her opera The Secret River, with Pulitzer prize winning librettist Mark Campbell. Dr. Sung continues as Composer-in-Residence for Dance Alive National Ballet (Gainesville, FL). Sung is a two-time winner of the “Individual Artists” award from the State of FL and was the recipient of the National Artist award by the Phi Kappa Phi Scholastic Honor Society. Premieres, performances, and commissions of Sung’s work have included pieces for cellist Yo-Yo Ma, the German Ministry of Culture (Rhineland-Pfalz), the National Symphony Orchestra, the Hong Kong Philharmonic, the Cincinnati Pops, the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra, the Akron Symphony Orchestra, the Boston Landmarks Orchestra, and other professional and youth orchestras and ensembles. Sung holds a B.M. (piano performance) from the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), an M.F.A (composition) from the University of Florida, and a D.M.A (piano performance) from the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Sung is a “Pegasus Professor,” an Endowed Trustees Chair Professor, and is the director of the Center for Research and Education in Arts, Technology, and Entertainment (CREATE) at the University of Central Florida, College of Arts and Humanities.