Composer Chinary Ung to be Inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters
UC San Diego News Center, Feb. 20, 2020

American Academy of Arts and Letters Inducts UCSD composer Chinary Ung and alum Carrie Mae Weems,
Classical music, by George Varga, The San Diego Union Tribune, Feb. 26, 2020

“Keynote Address, 33rd Asian Composers League Conference: The Space Between Cultural Fingerprints, Dreams, and Imagination.” Musika Jornal, Chinary Ung, 2018

“Imagery and Symbolism in Chinary Ung’s Aura (2005).”
by Yayoi Uno Everett, 2017

‘Singing Inside Aura’ Project: Variation, Recontextualization, and Recomposition in Three Recent Scores.”
by Adam Greene, 2017



“Tracing Cultural Legacies and Traditional Sensibilities in the ‘Futuristic Folk Music’ of Chinary Ung.”
by Koji Nakano
Music and Performing Arts Journal, Bang Saen: Faculty of Music and Performing Arts, Burapha University, 2015.

“Cultural Fingerprints: An Evolving Curriculum in Contemporary Music Composition.”
by Chinary Ung
Music and Performing Arts Journal, Bang Saen: Faculty of Music and Performing Arts, Burapha University, 2015

“A Journey from Inner Voices to ‘Outer Voices.’”
by Chinary Ung
The Legacy of The Grawemeyer Awards 1985-2015
edited by Allan Dittmer, Marc Satterwhite, Charles Ziegler, Melissa Evans-Andris, Diane Kyle, Kathryn Whitmore, Shannon Craigo-Snell, and Heywood Petry, 36–43
Louisville, KY: University of Louisville Press, 2015

Ung wins Rockefeller Award, Classical music, by James Chute
The San Diego Union Tribue April 23, 2014

Ung launches composers project by James Chute
San Diego Uniion Trubune, September 5, 2013

“Chinary Ung’s Age 70 a good year for Chinary Ung, Classical music, by James Chute
The San Diego Union Tribue May 31, 2013

Ung receives Fromm Foundation grant
James Chute,
San Diego Union Tribune, Dec. 23, 2013

“Still Life After Death: Transcendent Spiritualism in the Music of Chinary Ung.”
by Adam Greene, 2013

“Singing Inside Aura.”
by Chinary Ung and Adam Greene Music of the Spirit: Asian Pacific Musical Identity, edited by Michael Atherton and Bruce Crossman, NSW, Australia: Australian Music Centre. 2008

“Performance Challenges in the Music of Chinary Ung.”
by Susan Ung and Adam Greene
Music of the Spirit: Asian-Pacific Musical Identity, edited by Michael Atherton and Bruce Crossman, 175–81. NSW, Australia: Australian Music Centre, 2008

A History of Cambodia.
by David Chandler 4th ed. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2008.

“The Music of Chinary Ung: A Synthesis of Asian Aesthetics and Western Technique.”
by John Kays
Unvierstiy of Louisville Press, 2000.

“Cross-Cultural Hybridity in Music Composition: Southeast Asia in Three Works from America.”
by Christopher Adler, 1998

“Asian Music and Contemporary Cello Literature Performance Techniques, Ancient and Modern.”
by Hugh Livingston, 1997

“Sights and Sounds: Remembrances.” by Chou, Wen-chung, Minds for History, the Minds for History Institute, Arcosanti, Arizona. 1990

“More Then Pitch and Rhythm: Approaches to the Understanding of Contemporary Music.”
by Chinary Ung
International Musicological Society Report of the Twelfth Congress, Berkeley, 1981