Faculty Recital
P.Q. Phan, composer
Repertoire and performers to be announced
About the Artist
P.Q. Phan is professor of music in composition at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. Phan was born in 1962 in Vietnam. He became interested in music while studying architecture in 1978. He taught himself to play the piano, compose, and orchestrate. In 1982, he immigrated to the United States and began his formal musical training. A 1998 Rome Prize winner, Phan has composed in a wide range of genres including symphonies, chamber music, song cycle, and opera. He is a recipient of  ASCAP awards; grants from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Ohio Arts Councils, Charles Ives Center for American Music, and fellowships from the Macdowell Colony. He has appeared as guest composer at the 1999 Asian New Music Festival in Tokyo (Japan), 1999 and 1997 New Music Festival at Hamilton College (New York), 1996 residency with the Kronos Quartet at University of Iowa, 1995 Asian Composers’ Forum in Sendai (Japan), 1994 New Music Festival at University of California at Santa Barbara, and 1992 Music Lives in Pittsburgh. His music has been performed throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, South America, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and Asia. His works have been performed by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra, Ensemble Modern, American Composers Orchestra, Kronos Quartet, and Cincinnati Orchestra, among others. He is a frequent guest composer and lecturer in Asia. His work has been recorded by the Kronos Quartet for Nonesuch. Before joining the Jacobs School, Phan was on the faculty of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Cleveland State University.