Nov
17

Fluency of Trees @ Roulette

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.

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Oct
18
to Oct 19

Soundless @ MOCA, LA

Friday, October 18 @ 7:30pm
Saturday, October 19 @ 4pm
WAREHOUSE at The Geffen Contemporary
MOCA
Presented by MOCA and Fulcrum Arts
152 North Central Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90012
MOCA Members $10 / General Admission $12
More info at moca.org
Purchase tickets

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 Novak and Lawrence English. Soundless is presented at MOCA as part of Wonmi’s WAREHOUSE Programs. Wonmi's WAREHOUSE Programs is founded by Wonmi & Kihong Kwon and Family.

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May
11

The Sentience of Sound Workshop + Performance

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. 

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May
5

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.

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May
4

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.

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Apr
26

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.

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Apr
22

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.

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Apr
13

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.

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Mar
13

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.

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Mar
1
to Jun 2

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.

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Jan
21

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.

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Dec
6

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

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Oct
26

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)

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Oct
11
to Oct 14

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)

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Sep
27

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.

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Jul
15

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

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