Chinary Ung

Chinary Ung (Khmer: អ៊ុង ឈីណារី[1] pronounced [ʔuŋ cʰiːn̪aːriː]) (born November 24, 1942, in Takéo, Cambodia) is a composer currently living in California, United States.

After arriving in the US in 1965 to study clarinet, he turned to composition studies with Chou Wen-chung and Mario Davidovsky, receiving a Doctor of Musical Arts from Columbia University in 1974.

In 1988, he became the first American to win the University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for musical composition.

In October 2007 the Del Sol String Quartet was invited to premiere the composer's Spiral X playing the Library of Congress' collection of Stradivarius instruments.

In 2013, UC San Diego promoted Ung to the rank of Distinguished Professor.