Man Fang
2006-2007 Recipient

Fang Man is completing her doctorate at Cornell University under Steven Stucky and Roberto Sierra, with additional studies with composers Samuel Adler, Qigang Chen, George Crumb, Marc-Andre Dalbavie, Pascal Dusapin, David Felder, Du Mingxin, Aaron Jay Kernis, Wolfgang Rihm, Richard Toensing, Michael Theodore, and Ye Xiaogang. American Composers Orchestra named her winner of the 15th Underwood New Music Readings this year with a commission for her to compose a new orchestral work to be premiered at Carnegie Hall in New York City in 2008. She is currently participating for the one-year composition and computer course at IRCAM Paris.

PROJECT:
She will spend the year at IRCAM to learn IRCAM software, such as computer-assisted music composition, sound synthesis and processing, real-time interaction and spatialization. She will also have the opportunity to attend the composition master-classes given by Brian Ferneyhough, François-Bernard Mâche, Tristan Murail, Emmanuel Nunes, Philippe Schoeller, and Marco Stroppa. At the end of the program, she will produce a musical project displaying her newly acquired skills, which combines an acoustic instrument with electronics. The works will be premiered in concerts of IRCAM's artistic season in October 2007.

Harry Cherrin
2006-2007 Recipient

Saxophonist Harry Cherrin is a member of The Boston Saxophone Quartet and The Back Bay Quartet and has also performed with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP), Portland Symphony, Tanglewood Festival Orchestra, New Bedford Symphony, New Hampshire Music Festival, Indian Hill Symphony and Harvard Group for New Music. He was winner of New England Conservatory's concerto competition, performing Lars-Erik Larsson's concerto, and was twice the winner of University of Delaware's concerto competition. Cherrin has premiered new works for saxophone by composers such as John McDonald, Montserrat Torras, Michael Miller, Shi-Hui Chen, Michael McLaughlin and Howard Frazin at Harvard University, NEC's Jordan Hall, Tufts University, Forsythe Chapel (Jamaica Plain, MA) and the Zeitgeist Gallery (Cambridge, MA). Upcoming projects include the premieres of new works by Jonathan Sokol and Arthur Levering. Harry Cherrin received degrees with honors from the University of Delaware and New England Conservatory, and his teachers have included Kenneth Radnofsky, Charles Salinger, Marshall Taylor and Vincent Marinelli.