Point Reyes Dance Palace
503 B Street
Point Reyes Station, CA 94956
4-5:30pm
dancepalace.org

Sarah Cahill performs works on piano by Tania León, Gabriela Ortiz, Theresa Wong, Margaret Bonds, Mary Watkins, and others at the community center in Point Reyes Station. The program will include She Dances Naked Under Palm Trees, commissioned by Sarah for The Future Is Female project.

Headlands Center for the Arts
944 Simmonds Road
Mess Hall
Tickets $85 | Members $75
More info/RSVP

Join us at Headlands Center for the Arts for Embrace—an activation ceremony for the 2025 Wall Space commission by poet Forrest Gander.

The evening begins at 6:00PM with drinks in the Mess Hall, followed by a family-style supper at 6:30PM. Around 7:40PM, we’ll gather outdoors in The Commons, where Forrest Gander will be joined by composer and cellist Theresa Wong (AIR ‘09) and multi-disciplinary artist Ashwini Bhat to present Embrace, a collaborative performance during the activation ceremony of the Wall Space commission. 

Program:
6PM – Event starts
6:30PM –  Welcome remarks
6:40PM – Dinner served
7:40PM – Wall Space Activation Ceremony
8PM –  Event concludes

2pm PST / 5pm EST / 10pm London
tune in at: www.bbc.co.uk
Saxophonist Michaela Turcerová and cellist Theresa Wong pair up for the latest remote collaboration session on BBC’s Late Junction broadcast. The program will include an interview with Turcerová, Wong, and host Jennifer Lucy Allan.

Chapel of the Chimes
4499 Piedmont Ave
Oakland, CA 94611
5-9pm
More info: gardenofmemory.com
Duo with Kanoko Nishi (koto), in the Chapel of St. John

May 17 @ 8pm
Queens New Music Festival
Secret Theatre
38-02 61st St.  Woodside, NY 11377
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NakedEye Ensemble tackle politics and identity works in their next performance at QNMF. San Francisco Bay Area-based composer and cellist Theresa Wong eloquently portrays her Chinese immigrant roots in video and music. NYC-based composer Jerome Kitzke sets Lawrence Ferlinghetti's poems to a theatrical work for NakedEye and actor/singer Lisa Karrer. The evening also includes a multimedia world premiere by NYC-based electronic music composer Neil Rolnick, based on his interviews of elderly people sharing their joys, hopes, fears, and wisdom in the final act of their lives.

Theresa Wong: The Secret of Growth (2022)
for video and ensemble
Neil Rolnick: Better Than The Alternative (Premiere 2025)
for video and ensemble
Jerome Kitzke: I Am Waiting (2019)
with guest performer/vocalist Lisa Karrer

The Metropolitan Museum of New York
1000 5th Ave.
New York, NY 10028
2pm-8pm
More info at metmuseum.org
Free with museum admission

Pianist Sarah Cahill subverts the white, male-dominated classical piano repertoire with an all-day marathon of works by women around the globe. She will perform She Dances Naked Under Palm Trees, especially commissioned for the project in 2019, as part of her project, The Future Is Female, a program featuring more than seventy compositions by women from around the globe. Join Cahill in The Met's European Paintings 1250-1800 galleries for a marathon performance that explores the music which history has pushed to the margins, from the Baroque to the present.

University of the Pacific
Recital Hall
3601 Pacific Ave
Stockton, CA 95211
More info: pacific.edu
This recital is free and open to the public.

A concert including performances by University of the Pacific conservatory students of Castings (2010) and She Dances Naked Under Palm Trees (2019) as well as solo and trio improvisations with faculty members Kathryn Schulmeister (double bass), and Kyle Bruckmann (oboe/electronics).

House Concert
Berkeley, CA
3pm & 5pm
For more information and tickets, email: harry@fullplatemedia.com
$30 reservations recommended

Advance purchase/reservations are recommended to secure a seat. Payable via PayPal (to harry@fullplatemedia.com) or Venmo (@harry-bernstein). If you don't use electronic payment, other arrangements can be made.

Fred Frith, electric guitar
Theresa Wong, cello and voice

Roulette Intermedium
509 Atlantic Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11217
$25 advance/$30 doors/$20 Student/Senior (w/ ID, Senior 65+)
Doors 7pm, Concert 8pm
Tickets at: roulette.org
(Night 2 of 2)

Soundless, a work composed by Ellen Fullman (Long String Instrument) and Theresa Wong (cello, electric guitar, and electronics), explores the essence of string resonance to create a space of connection, empathy, and multiplicity. The piece combines the spectrally undulating drones of the Long String Instrument, rhythms created by Fullman’s uniquely designed ‘shoveler’ tool, and cello and electric guitar expanded into dimensional sound fields through four-channeled amplification. The piece was commissioned by room40 following the label’s critically acclaimed release of Fullman and Wong’s album, Harbors.

Roulette Intermedium
509 Atlantic Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11217
$25 advance/$30 doors/$20 Student/Senior (w/ ID, Senior 65+)
Doors 7pm, Concert 8pm
Tickets at: roulette.org
(Night 1 of 2)

Soundless, a work composed by Ellen Fullman (Long String Instrument) and Theresa Wong (cello, electric guitar, and electronics), explores the essence of string resonance to create a space of connection, empathy, and multiplicity. The piece combines the spectrally undulating drones of the Long String Instrument, rhythms created by Fullman’s uniquely designed ‘shoveler’ tool, and cello and electric guitar expanded into dimensional sound fields through four-channeled amplification. The piece was commissioned by room40 following the label’s critically acclaimed release of Fullman and Wong’s album, Harbors.

Roulette Intermedium
509 Atlantic Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11217
$15 advance | $20 doors | $10 Student/Senior (w/ ID, Senior 65+ - advance and at door) | doors 6:30pm
7pm
(Free for Roulette Members)
More info at roulette.org

Wong and Fullman will share their processes for generating sounds and structures and talk about how they collaborate. They will demonstrate the way invention and design play a large role in their approach, including: all about the Long String Instrument, cello and electric guitar scordatura, extended harmonics, extended techniques, and using zip ties for guitar frets. They will demonstrate the digital tools that they use that make it possible to audition alternative tunings including: using TouchOSC for the iPad to make a Partch Diamond or tuning lattice, Pianoteq, Dorico with HEJI accidentals and a natural intervals harmonizer for Ableton. Wong and Fullman will show graphic charts that they have each designed to clarify the mechanical principles of string harmonics. The workshop will be conducted in an informal and interactive manner reflecting the interests of participants.

Roulette Intermedium
509 Atlantic Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11217
$25 advance/$30 doors/$20 Student/Senior (w/ ID, Senior 65+)
Doors 7pm, Concert 8pm
Tickets at: roulette.org
Fluency of Trees is a solo work exploring connection to the primal sentience of the natural world. The piece synergizes song forms, noise, and harmony through a unique timbral merging of amplified cello and voice. The work stems from the ongoing inquiry, “how can I rediscover the core of the cello as wood and string and hair, or even simply as a tree?” Originally premiered at the Other Minds Festival 2022 in San Francisco, this performance will include expanded and newly created material. This is a NYC premiere.

Other Minds Latitudes 22
September 12 @ 8:00pm
Center for New Music
55 Taylor St.
San Francisco, CA 94102
otherminds.org
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Solo sets by:
Austin Larkin (violin)
Theresa Wong (cello, voice)

May 11, 2024
15:00-22:00
Sant’Andrea Island, Venice, Italy 
  
ESTUAR No.2
A context-specific art project for cultivating intertidal imagination, inspired by Sant’Andrea in Venice, Italy. 

The Sentience of Sound 
15:00-18:00: The Sentience of Sound: A Workshop with Theresa Wong 
20:00: Solo Cello and Voice Performance by Theresa Wong (feat. Sofia Pozdniakova)

In this semi-improvisational, collaborative workshop led by Theresa Wong, we will create a space in which to explore the sentience of sound within and around us. How do abstract sounds in our environments carry meanings, emotions, consciousness? How do our cells receive these vibrations on a subconscious level? How about language and landscape, and their relationship? We can deepen and expand our connections with the natural world through attentive practices of listening, breathing, and vocalizing, among others, tuning into the kinetic presence of the body. We will begin to sense how vibrations are at the core of the way we connect to ourselves, each other, and the world around us. The workshop is open to participants of all backgrounds.

The workshop will be followed by a concert by Theresa Wong in the small church on the island, which will conclude with an improvised performance with Sofia Pozdniakova. 

This is the second event in the ESTUAR series initiated by Q aka Kyoo Lee in October 2023, an experience-focused curatorial project inspired by the island of Sant’Andrea, where participants explore intertidal fields of arts, culture, science, history, and technology by unlearning to sense the world carefully, critically, creatively. We approach ESTUAR as a clarion call for connective pauses in our time of global and ecological crisis.  

Curated by Q @smartphilosophone
with @marta.magini and @salvia.barena
with @microclima_
In collaboration with COSMOGRAM and Tocia! Cucina e comunità
With support from @ism_berlin 
Graphic design: Francesco Bevilacqua @tarrant_tabor 

The workshop will be conducted in English with Italian translation available upon request.

* THE WORKSHOP, open to anyone interested, can accept up to 12 participants, and 40 euros from each participant will cover the operating cost for the day’s event: the shuttle (a boat between Sant’Elena and Sant’Andrea), live performance, and aperitif (curated by Tocia! cucina e comunità). 

* TO REGISTER FOR THE WORKSHOP which includes admission to the live performance, e-mail info.estuar.1@gmail.com with the subject line, “estuar2/workshop.”

 * TO REGISTER FOR THE LIVE PERFORMANCE ONLY, e-mail info.estuar.1@gmail.com with the subject line, “estuar2/live”. The performance can accept up to 50 people and a ticket costs 20 euros, which includes the shuttle ride and aperitif. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.