Stella Sung
As a national and international award-winning composer, the music of Stella Sung has been performed throughout the United States and abroad. She served as the first Composer-in-Residence for the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra (2008–2011), and was one of five composers nationally selected for a “Music Alive” award, a three-year residency with the Dayton Performing Arts Alliance (2013–16), sponsored by New Music USA, the League of American Orchestras, ASCAP, the Aaron Copland Fund, and the Andrew Mellon Foundation. Dr. Sung is Composer-in-Residence for Dance Alive National Ballet (Gainesville, FL).
Stella Sung is the recipient of numerous awards including a 2020–21 “Commissioning Grant for Female Composers” from Opera America and a 2021–22 NEA grant for her opera The Secret River (with Pulitzer Prize-winning librettist Mark Campbell, commissioned and produced by Opera Orlando). She is also the recipient of a Phi Kappa Phi National Artists Award, Florida Individual Artists Fellowships, a fellowship at the MacDowell Colony, and awards from ASCAP.
Premieres, performances, and commissions of Dr. Sung’s work have included compositions for Yo-Yo Ma, the National Symphony Orchestra, the Houston Symphony Orchestra, the Hong Kong Philharmonic, the Cincinnati Pops, the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra, the Boston Landmarks Orchestra, and many other orchestras, chamber ensembles, and soloists.
Dr. Sung is Director of the Center for Research and Education in Arts, Technology, and Entertainment (CREATE) at the University of Central Florida, where she holds a “Pegasus” Professorship and an endowed University Trustees Chair — the highest honors awarded to distinguished faculty at UCF.