Anthony Cheung (b. 1982), a native of San Francisco, began his musical studies at the age of six. He is currently a doctoral candidate at Columbia University, where he studies with Tristan Murail and teaches in the Core Curriculum. Previously, he attended Harvard College, where he studied with Bernard Rands and graduated with a joint degree in Music and History. He has been a composition fellow at the Tanglewood, Aspen, Acanthes, and Fontainebleau festivals. His compositions have been played by groups such as the Minnesota Orchestra, American Composers Orchestra, Ensemble InterContemporain, Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, Dinosaur Annex, Aspen Contemporary Ensemble, the orchestras of Haddonfield, Marin, and Berkeley, the New York Youth Symphony, and the SF Symphony Youth Orchestra. Honors include the Charles Ives Fellowship and Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and three ASCAP Morton Gould awards. Also active as a pianist, Anthony studied primarily with Paul Hersh and Robert Levin and has often performed standard and contemporary music as well as improvised jazz; he takes a great interest in jazz transcription and analysis. As an advocate for new music, he hosted and produced many programs on WHRB devoted to contemporary music. For more info, please visit http://music.columbia.edu/~anthony