Viet Cuong is a young American composer who has had works commissioned and performed on six continents by musicians and ensembles such as Sō Percussion, the PRISM Saxophone Quartet, JACK Quartet, American Modern Ensemble, Jacksonville Symphony, Albany Symphony, Music From Copland House, Mimi Stillman, Anthony McGill, Lisa Moore, and over one hundred college and conservatory wind ensembles. Viet’s music has been featured in diverse venues such as Carnegie Hall, the Aspen Music Festival, Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, Midwest Clinic, International Double Reed Society Conference, Boston GuitarFest, US Navy Band International Saxophone Symposium, and on American Public Radio’s Performance Today. Awards include the ASCAP Morton Gould Award, Suzanne and Lee Ettelson Award, Theodore Presser Foundation Music Award, New York Youth Symphony First Music Commission, Cortona Prize, and Walter Beeler Memorial Prize. He has been an artist in residence at Copland House, Yaddo, Ucross, and the Atlantic Center for the Arts, and was a scholarship student at the Aspen, Bowdoin, and Lake Champlain music festivals. A graduate of the Peabody Conservatory, Viet is currently a Naumburg and Roger Sessions PhD Candidate at Princeton University. Please visit vietcuongmusic.com to listen and learn more.