Chinary Ung is a composer who won the University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for musical composition and  the Kennedy Center Friedheim Award.
Chinary Ung (Khmer:   pronounced [u cinari) (born November 24, 1942 in Takeo, Cambodia) is a composer currently living in California, United States. In 1988, he became the first American to win the University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for musical composition. Additionally, he received the Kennedy Center Friedheim Award, as well as awards from The American Academy of Arts and Letters, Asia Foundation, Asian Cultural Council, Rockefeller Foundation, Ford Foundation, Guggenheim Foundation, Joyce Foundation, and The National Endowment for the Arts. 
