CALIFORNIA CREATORS

Pui-shan Cheung, U. of Missouri, Kansas City, is one of four composers who received scholarships to attend California Summer Music through a grant from The ASCAP Foundation Irving Caesar Fund. Other recipients are Paul Kwo, USC; Tan Hainu, U. of Missouri, Kansas City; and Milena Zhivotovskaya, Mannes College of Music, New York City. Photo credit: Anicia Timberlake

California Summer Music at the Robert Louis Stevenson School in Pebble Beach received a grant from The ASCAP Foundation Irving Caesar Fund to support scholarships for four young composers to attend their 2005 composition program under the direction of David Tcimpidis and Dr. Chen Yi. Students received private lessons as well as group seminars to discuss their own works and past masterworks. While at California Summer Music, composition students were required to write a chamber work, rehearse it with performance students and supervise the public premiere, all within the 3-1/2 weeks of the program.