USA: ACO's Emerging Composers Commission

Composer Fang Man has won the American Composers Orchestra's 2006 Underwood Emerging Composers Commission. Selected from among the seven composers who participated in this year's annual Underwood New Music Readings in May, she has been awarded a $15,000 commission for a piece that is slated for premiere by the ACO at Carnegie Hall in 2008.

Ms. Fang, a graduate of the Central Conservatory of Music Beijing, is currently a doctoral candidate at Cornell University where she studies with Steven Stucky and Roberto Sierra. She is also among ten composers chosen by IRCAM for a year-long residency to compose a piece employing new technology to be premiered at Centre Pompidou, Paris in October 2007.

To read more about Fang Man, as well as to hear a sound sample of the ACO's reading of her composition Black and White, please visit the news story by Molly Sheridan on the American Music Center's Web magazine NewMusicBox.