John Sanborn's V+M at Kunsthalle Prague
March 1 -June 2, 2024
Notes on Us
Gallery 3
kunsthallepraha.org
John Sanborn (*1954), one of the main representatives of the second wave of American video art, will present his recent work. The first ever opportunity to encounter the works of this student of Nam June Paik in the Czech Republic includes a monumental audiovisual installation from the Kunsthalle Praha Collection. In his poetic works, the artist combines visual elements with movement, spoken word and a distinctive music. The works takes on the themes of love but also of equal and open gender identity, opened through the language of ancient mythology. This exhibition will include V+M, a multi-channel video installation with music by Theresa Wong.
Peninsula Women's Chorus premieres Night Into Dawn
May 4, 2024
Mission Santa Clara
500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara
8pm
pwchorus.org
Peninsula Women’s Chorus presents the world premiere of Night Into Dawn, a newly commissioned work written by Theresa Wong, PWC’s 2023-24 Composer-in-residence. The program will also include a performance of Giacomo Puccini‘s Messa di Gloria, performed with the Golden Gate Men’s Chorus.
Peninsula Women's Chorus premieres Night Into Dawn
May 5, 2024
Mission Dolores Basilica
3321 16th Street, San Francisco
4pm
pwchorus.org
Peninsula Women’s Chorus presents the world premiere of Night Into Dawn, a newly commissioned work written by Theresa Wong, PWC’s 2023-24 Composer-in-residence. The program will also include a performance of Giacomo Puccini‘s Messa di Gloria, performed with the Golden Gate Men’s Chorus.
Workshop + Performance celebrating Fabrica @ 30
May 15-17, 2024
Fabrica
Via Postioma 54/F
31020 Catena di Villorba
Treviso, Italy
Workshop and concert as part of programming to celebrate Fabrica’s 30th Anniversary
More info forthcoming at fabrica.it
Solo
June 8, 2024
1131 24th Street
Oakland, CA 94607
7pm
Tickets: $105/ea @ Eventbrite
Phil Gelb’s dinner concert series with a 4 course menu featuring Masumoto Farm peaches!
1 black eyed pea fritters with peach chutney
2 Roasted beets, roasted peaches, handmade cashew cheese-herb balls, romaine, peach miso dressing
3 Southern fried tempeh (with handmade fava bean tempeh), peach barbecue sauce, stewed greens, house pickls, cornbread, succotash.
4 Peach ice cream (cashew based), waffle bowls, candied walnuts, cherry sauce
Theresa will perform works from Practicing Sands, a collection of pieces for cello and voice which draws inspiration from the sounds of the natural world and sensations of sonic genetic memory. Combining improvisation, composition, alternative tunings, and extended techniques, the pieces stem from Wong’s ongoing question: “how can I rediscover the core of the cello as wood and string and hair, or even simply as a tree?” Practicing Sands was released in 2022 on Wong's imprint, fo'c'sle.
Soundless @ Fulcrum Arts
Oct. 17, 2024
Details forthcoming
fulcrumarts.org
Soundless, a work by Ellen Fullman and Theresa Wong for Long String Instrument, electric guitar, cello, and electronics, will be presented as part of Energy Fields: Vibrations of The Pacific, an exhibition, publication, and public program co-curated by Robert Takahashi Crouch and Lawrence English.
Sarah Cahill performs She Dances Naked Under Palm Trees
April 26, 2024
Detroit Institute of Arts
Rivera Court
(with Diego Rivera's mural titled Industry)
5200 Woodward Ave
Detroit, MI 48202
7pm
Tickets & more info
Sarah performs a ninety-minute program from her project The Future is Female, featuring music composed by women, from the Baroque to the present day. The program will include Wong’s She Dances Naked Under Palm Trees.
Guest on Sarah Cahill’s Backstage Pass
April 22, 2024
Amateur Music Network presents:
Sarah Cahill’s Backstage Pass with Theresa Wong
Old First Church
1751 Sacramento St.
San Francisco, CA 94109
Theresa Wong performs music from her recent album Practicing Sands and talks about her approach to composing and improvising on cello and other instruments. The conversation will focus on “creativity and form”: exploration as a compositional tool, just intonation, queerness in music, and composing for oneself and others. Sarah will also perform Theresa’s She Dances Naked Under Palm Trees, inspired by Nina Simone.
This event is available both in person at Old First Concerts and online via zoom.
Sarah Cahill performs She Dances Naked Under Palm Trees
April 13, 2024
WOCO FEST
The Mansion at Strathmore
5301 Tuckerman Ln
North Bethesda, MD 20852
6 pm
For this special festival hosted by the Boulanger Initiative, Sarah performs music by Élisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre, Hélène de Montgeroult, Louise Farrenc, Leokadiya Kashperova, Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru, Adelaide Pereira da Silva, Margaret Bonds, and Theresa Wong.
Booklaunch for Rita Bullwinkel’s Headshot
City Lights Bookstore
261 Columbus Ave
San Francisco, CA 94133
7pm (in person and live streamed online)
City Lights and Viking Press celebrate the publication of Headshot - by Rita Bullwinkel - published by Viking Press - Join us in an evening of merriment with music by Theresa Wong, readings by Venita Blackburn, Jennifer Cheng, Ashley Nelson Levy, and discussion with Rita Bullwinkel and Oscar Villalon.
Sarah Cahill performs She Dances Naked Under Palm Trees
Desert Hot Springs Classical Concerts
4 pm
Grace Church, Hot Springs, CA
free admission
dhsclassicalconcerts.org
Sarah Cahill performs selections from her project, The Future is Female, with works by Louise Farrenc, Fanny Mendelssohn, Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou, Margaret Bonds, Theresa Wong, and Regina Harris Baiocchi. The concert will include She Dances Naked Under Palm Trees, written for this project in 2019.
Composers Now with Annie Gosfield
4pm PST / 7pm EST
Online at: composersnow.org
Composers Now presents a broadcast of Composer Curator Annie Gosfield’s interviews with Jessie Cox, Theresa Wong, and Carl Stone. The Youtube live stream will include performance examples and conversations about the creative process. Artists will be present via online chat.
fo'c'sle celebrates "Moving Parts" album release
Mills College Littlefield Concert Hall
5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland
8pm, free
performingarts.mills.edu
Come celebrate the release of "Moving Parts", by Fred Frith and Sudhu Tewari (aka Normal) out on fo'c'sle
Presented by the Center for Contemporary Music, Mills College at Northeastern University
Moving Parts is a collection of vibrant improvisations by Normal, the duo of Fred Frith and Sudhu Tewari, playing manually and electronically manipulated home-made instruments. The duo formed in 2002 when Tewari sparked a revitalization of Frith’s early 80s explorations in self-made “planks of wood with strings”. Approaching instrument making not as beautifully crafted art objects requiring virtuosic techniques, but rather as crude de-constructions patched together using the simplest of means and requiring only minimal exertion to produce sound, the duo turns the smallest spring into a potential orchestra, the bluntest needle into a sharp response. As with any music, what is really going on is intense listening, tricks of memory, and the joy of discovery. Listen at focslemusic.com
Cage’s FOUR6: William Winant with Joan La Barbara, Fred Frith, and Theresa Wong
Jeannik Méquet Littlefield Concert Hall
Mills College
5000 MacArthur Blvd.
Oakland, CA 94613
8pm
Mills Music Now Concert Series
Program:
Four6 (1992) by John Cage
& Open improvisation (in the style of Merce Cunningham Events)
Performed by William Winant, Joan La Barbara, Fred Frith, and Theresa Wong
Residency at Ragdale
Ragdale Foundation
Lake Forest, IL
Artist-in-resident
Oct. 30 - Nov. 17
Recipient of The William and Solange Brown Fellowship for New Musical Composition developed through a partnership between Ragdale and The Herb Alpert Foundation
Duo with Kanoko Nishi-Smith
Temescal Art Center
511 48th Street
Oakland, CA 94609
7pm
temescalartcenter.org
Nikkei Decolonization Tour Fundraiser
Duo with Kanoko Nishi-Smith, koto
NakedEye performs The Secret of Growth
October 26, 2023
7:00 PM
Carroll Community College
1601 Washington RoadWestminster, MD, 21157
nakedeyeensemble.com
NakedEye presents: Looking Inward Facing Out
An evening of reflective and refractive music at Carroll Community College
Zack Browning: Decade of the Dragon (2015)
Molly Joyce: Less is More (2017)
Florent Ghys: Etude for 11 Faces (2015)
Richard Belcastro: Signal Paths (2020)
Theresa Wong: The Secret of Growth (2022)
Residency at the Stone, NYC
Theresa Wong Residency at the Stone
at The New School
All concerts @ 8:30pm
55 West 13th Street, NYC
thestonenyc.com
Wed 10/11
Nava Dunkelman (percussion, voice)
Fred Frith (electric guitar, voice)
Carla Kihlstedt (violin, voice)
Theresa Wong (cello, voice)
Thur 10/12
Sean Meehan (percussion)
Theresa Wong (cello, voice)
Fri 10/13
Joan La Barbara (voice)
Theresa Wong (cello, voice)
Sat 10/14
Zeena Parkins (harps + electronics)
Chris Brown (keyboard + electronics)
Theresa Wong (electric guitar, cello, voice)
Soundless - Brisbane Powerhouse
Brisbane Powerhouse
Yagara Country
119 Lamington St.
New Farm QLD 4005
Brisbane, Australia
7:30pm
More info/tickets
Brisbane Powerhouse and room40 present an evening of two newly commissioned works:
Soundless - Ellen Fullman & Theresa Wong
Skin Resonance - Annea Lockwood and Vanessa Tomlinson
Soundless - Art Gallery of New South Wales
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Art Gallery Road, The Domain
Sydney NSW 2000, Australia
More info
Premiere of Soundless, a new work by Ellen Fullman and Theresa Wong
North and South presents world premieres and new music commissions from world class artists as they all converge on Sydney for a two-night series of incredibly special musical moments. Created in collaboration with composer, artist, curator and Lawrence English (Room40), this music performance series will activate the Art Gallery’s campus on Wednesday evenings during the Volume festival. Exploratory sonic approaches orbiting outward from drifting ambience, neo-classical forms and reductive electronics will be presented over a series of events, with a focus on intergenerational performance, emerging Indigenous musicians and international senior career musicians.
Splinter Reeds 10th Anniversary Party
Dresher Ensemble Studio
7:30pm
2201 Poplar Street
Oakland, CA 94607
$10-40 sliding scale
Eventbrite info
Bay Area quintet Splinter Reeds celebrates their 1st decade with composers Theresa Wong, Jordan Glenn, Mario Godoy & Zachary James Watkins.
Voices
Sunday, July 23 2023, 7pm
Mosswood Sound Series
Mosswood Chapel
3630 telegraph oakland ca
$10-$25 sliding scale
Eventbrite Tickets
Facebook event
AN EVENING OF VOCAL MUSIC with
Theresa Wong
Danishta Rivero
Roco Córdova
Alexandra Buschman-Román
Lorin Benedict
Trio with Gabby Wen & Sophia Shen
July 15, 2023
8pm
Martial Arts, Oakland
Sliding scale $5-15
Please write to tree_wong@yahoo.com for the address
Improvised music by:
Theresa Wong (cello, voice) / Gabby Wen (guqin) / Sophia Shen (pipa)
Sharing the evening with Cole Pulice and Chuck Johnson
Celebrating Pride on KALW
June 25, 2023
Revolutions per Minute
hosted by Sarah Cahill
kalw.org
6-8pm PST
Join us to celebrate Pride Month on air: Ellen Fullman and I will share our music and inspirations in conversation with Sarah Cahill.
The Secret of Growth - at New Music Gathering 2023
New Music Gathering 2023
Lincoln Hall, Portland State University
1620 Southwest Park Avenue
2pm PST
NakedEye Ensemble performs The Secret of Growth, an audio-visual ancestral altar commissioned in 2022.
Garden of Memory at Chapel of the Chimes
Garden of Memory
Summer Solstice Celebration at Chapel of the Chimes
4499 Piedmont Ave. Oakland, CA
www.gardenofmemory.com
5-9pm
Duo Improvisations
Theresa Wong (cello, voice)
Roco Córdova (voice, electronics)
Join us to celebrate the solstice with this special Bay Area event!
Trio with Haruka Fujii & Kanoko Nishi Smith
May 27, 8pm
House Concert in Berkeley
To reserve a seat, email: harry@fullplatemedia.com
Tickets are $30, payable in advance of the concert
via PayPal (to harry@fullplatemedia.com) or
Venmo (@harry-bernstein)
Improvised music with:
Haruka Fujii, percussion
Kanoko Nishi Smith, koto
Theresa Wong, cello, electric guitar, voice
Improvisation workshop with Kumi Maxson
Indexical
Tannery Arts Center
1050 River St. #119 Santa Cruz
More info
Kumi Maxson will be joined by Theresa Wong for this week's collective improvisation space. The workshop will consist of guided exercises, free improvisation, and discussions of the liberatory political implications of musical improvisation. Some weeks will also have a short reading to guide discussion. The workshops cater to all levels of improvisational and musical experience (including none!), striving to create an accessible space for non-hierarchical participation and experimentation. Musicians are encouraged to bring their own instruments, however some will be provided for those who do not have their own. This session is especially focused for Queer/Trans/Persons of Color.
Masks are required for these workshops. Wind players and vocalists may perform without masks if needed.
To Burst To Bloom - Peninsula Women's Chorus
Saturday, May 13, 2023 @ 2:00pm
All Saints' Episcopal Church, Palo Alto • 555 Waverley St, Palo Alto
More info here
To Burst To Bloom - Peninsula Women's Chorus
Saturday, May 6, 2023 @ 4:00pm
St. Mark's Episcopal Church • 600 Colorado Avenue, Palo Alto
More info here
Fluency of Trees @ Echoraum, Vienna
Freitag, 3. März 2023 · 19:00 Uhr
Katharina Klement: archive (Vernissage)
Theresa Wong solo (Cello, Stimme) · Caroline Profanter solo (Elektronik)
More info at echoraum.at
In The Cave of Guanyin - Torino Museo d'arte orientale
Feb. 26, 17:30h (CET)
Museo d’Arte Orientale, Torino
Via San Domenico, 11, 10122 Torino, Italy
More info at maotorino.it
Part of “Evolving Soundscapes”
Curated by Chiara Lee & freddie Murphy as part of the exhibition Buddha10
On the occasion of the Buddha10 exhibition, Chiara Lee & freddie Murphy propose a public program that starts on the evening of the inauguration of the exhibition, October 19th, and continue until the summer: not just concerts, but rather a traveling collective sound ritual, officiated by artists from the Asian continent and the related diaspora.
In The Cave of Guanyin, is a four-channel piece for cello, voice and electronics inspired by sculptures of the bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara, also known as Guanyin.
Fluency of Trees - Raum 013, Bern
Raum 013
the solo series nr II
20:00 (CET)
Progr, Waisenhausplatz 30
Bern, Switzerland
More info on Facebook
the solo series nr II
Theresa Wong (cello) - Fluency of Trees
Katharina Weber (piano) - improvisation
Marc Unternährer (tuba) - improvisation
Lis Marti (piano&synthesizer) - Piano Control by Thomas Kessler
Romane Bouffioux (percussion) - improvisation
IMPACT Video streaming on Composers Now
Tuesday, February 21 @ 7pm (EST)
A 40 minute video on my work will stream on the IMPACT Series
Presented by Composers Now, founded and directed by Tania León
Live chat on youtube:
Stream online here
Fluency of Trees - Le Fine Gueule, Paris
La Fine Gueule
Presented by Infuse
21, rue du docteur Leray 75013
Paris, France
21:00 (CET)
Limited seating, reserve with sms at: 0631276944
More info on Facebook and Instagram
Theresa Wong nous propose une soirée qui explorera un rapport à la sentience primordiale que la nature possède. Elle se pose souvent une question : comment redécouvrir le noyau du violoncelle dans le bois, la corde, le crin ... ou même simplement en tant qu'un arbre ?
L’œuvre Fluency of Trees est une mélange de compositions, d’improvisation, de bruit, d’harmonie … Au fond, une fusion des timbres de la voix et du violoncelle.
La musique commence à 21h
L'entrée : 10 euros (une boisson incluse, le reste pour l'artiste)
Restauration possible à partir de 18h30 (empanadas maison; charcuteries et fromages artisanaux...)
Places limités, réservation par sms au 0631276944
Duo with Francesca Naibo
Spazio Pontano
Civico 35, Milano
9pm
Duo with Francesca Naibo, guitar