As a national and international award-winning composer, Stella Sung's compositions are performed throughout the United States and abroad.  She is Composer-in-Residence for the Orlando (FL) Philharmonic Orchestra, and Dance Alive National Ballet (Gainesville, FL). 

Since 2003, Sung has been using digital and multi-media applications in her concert and symphonic compositions as well as in music for dance and ballet. As a collaborative artist, her most recent large-scale work, The Circle Closes, calls for the use of digital lighting design which is synchronized with the music. Additionally, the unique and pioneering use of “singing” crystal bowls as part of the instrumentation for The Circle Closes, is perhaps the first ever, serious concert work to use these bowls within the fabric of an orchestral composition. This feature will likely be used again in the compositions of Stella Sung, forming a “signature sound” for her work.

Stella Sung is the recipient of numerous awards, including the 2007-2010 Phi Kappa Phi National Artists Award, as well as a 2009-10 "Meet the Composer" award. She is a two-time winner of a Florida Individual Artists Fellowship, sponsored by the Division of Cultural Affairs for the State of Florida, as well as the 2005 recipient of a Florida Artists Enhancement award. She was a Fellow at the prestigious MacDowell Colony, and was the recipient of the Norton Stevens Fellowship.

Dr. Sung is also an active composer for film, and has recently completed the score for the full-length documentary film, Voices in the Clouds, which is receiving critical acclaim.  Sung is currently working on other film projects to be released within the next two years.

The music of Stella Sung is published by the Southern Music Company (USA), Theodore Presser Music Publishers (USA), Editions Henry Lemoine (France), and Sonic Star Music Productions, and is currently available on Koch International Recordings, Cambria Master Recordings, Sinfonica (Italy), Eroica Master Recordings, and Albany Records. Sung's compositions have been broadcast on radio stations world-wide including WGBH-Boston, WNYC-New York, the Bavarian Radio (Munich,Germany), the Swedish National Radio, and Radio Vaticana (Rome, Italy).

Sung holds the Bachelor of Music degree (piano performance) from the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), the Master of Fine Arts degree (Composition) from the University of Florida, and the Doctor of Musical Arts degree (piano performance) from the University of Texas at Austin.

 Dr. Sung has been recognized by the University of Florida as a Distinguished Alumna, an Alumna of Outstanding Achievement, and has received a Distinguished Achievement Award from UF.  Sung is director of the Center for Research and Education in Arts, Technology, and Entertainment (CREATE) at the University of Central Florida, and is Professor of Music in UCF's School of Visual Arts and Design (Digital Media).