Writings

Profiles and essays

Miller Theatre Portrait Concert. Essay by Donna Lee Davidson (Nov. 2025)

The Wry Modernism of Anthony Cheung. Review of Music for Film, Sculpture, and Captions by Joe Cadagin in San Francisco Classical Voice (Jan. 2023)

Anthony Cheung: The Space and the Line. Essay by Tim Rutherford-Johnson for the album Music for Film, Sculpture, and Captions (Kairos, Oct. 2022). Download available with login.

Feature in the Chicago Reader by Peter Margasak. (Oct. 2016)

Preview of Lyra with the Cleveland Orchestra by Zachary Lewis of the Plain Dealer. (March 2016)

Preview of Lyra with the Cleveland Orchestra by Mike Telin of ClevelandClassical.com. (March 2016)

Selected Writings/Interviews Online

Interviewed as part of a feature article by Joshua Barone in the New York Times on the American Modern Opera Company’s (AMOC*) Ojai Festival season (June 2022)

Ligeti's Challenges of Music Identity: Essay for the University of Chicago Presents Ligeti Series program book (September 2017)

Interview with Martine Thomas on the International Contemporary Ensemble blog, in advance of the premiere of Assumed Roles. (August 2016)

Interviewed as part of a feature article on contemporary response pieces by David Allen in the New York Times. (August 2016)

Roundtable interview on the influence of Pierre Boulez with Zachary Woolfe in the New York Times. (March 2015)

Interview with Michelle Lou on the Talea Ensemble blog, in advance of the premiere of SynchroniCities. (December 2012)

Blog post on Steve Coleman and his new work for Talea at the Newport Jazz Festival. (August 2013)

Elliott Carter: An Appreciation. Written for the website of the American Academy in Rome. (November 2012)

Blog post on a Talea Ensemble performance of Stockhausen's Kontakte (November 2011)

Magazine

New Colors: Composing in the 21st Century. Feature essay in Esopus, Volume 16. Includes a specially curated CD, Thirteen Composers. (Spring 2011)

Analysis

Ligeti's Magic Horn: Parallel Universes of Tuning and Tradition in the Hamburg Concerto. Dissertation essay (Columbia University, 2010) on György Ligeti's Hamburg Concerto. Access through ProQuest.

Yayoi Uno Everett: “Transcending Ethnicity: Post-Spectral Music by Xu Yi, Anthony Cheung, and Yoshiaki Onishi.” In Amy Bauer, Liam Cagney, and William Mason (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Spectral Music, Oxford Handbooks (2022).