About

Theresa Wong is a composer, multi-instrumentalist, and intermedia artist active at the intersection of composition, improvisation, and the synergy of multiple disciplines. As a cellist and vocalist, Wong has forged a unique vocabulary on her instruments through extensive explorations in new playing techniques, alternative tunings, and the timbral merging of singing and playing together. A 2024 Guggenheim Fellow in Music Composition, her works include Fluency of Trees for cello and voice, which premiered at the Other Minds Festival, She Dances Naked Under Palm Trees, commissioned by pianist Sarah Cahill, and The Unlearning, a multi-media song cycle released on Tzadik and premiered at Roulette Intermedium. Her long-standing collaboration with Long String Instrument inventor Ellen Fullman includes Harbors, chosen as one of Wire’s top 50 releases of 2020, and Soundless, presented at the Volume Festival in Sidney and MOCA Los Angeles. Commissioned works include pieces for Del Sol Quartet, Splinter Reeds, Long Beach Opera, NakedEye Ensemble, and San Francisco Girls Chorus. She currently resides in the San Francisco Bay Area.