Theresa Wong
www.theresawong.org
Theresa Wong is an improviser and composer based in the San Francisco Bay Area whose work encompasses music, theater and the visual arts. Her training in classical music and design fused during her fellowship at Fabrica Center in Treviso, Italy where she recognized the possibility of creative performance through encounters with Lawrence Weiner, Koichi Makigami and Alexander Balanescu. Current projects include: O Sleep, an improvised opera launched into progress at the Headlands Center for the Arts which explores the conundrum of sleep life, Call It Culture, a cello duo written for and performed with Joan Jeanrenaud and funded by a Subito Grant, which utilizes original extended techniques in a score merging composition and improvisation; and Disasters of War, inspired by Francisco Goya's etchings, a duo performed with Carla Kihlstedt at the Meridian Gallery for cello, violin and voices. Wong was recently invited by dance pioneer Anna Halprin to perform a leading vocal role in Spirit of Place, a site-specific piece honoring Stern Grove. She is also a cast member on cello, voice and piano in Carla Kihlstedt's Necessary Monsters seven member theater project. In addition, she has collaborated with such artists as Fred Frith, Joelle Leandre, Gianni Gebbia, Dohee Lee, Ellen Fullman and ROVA Saxophone Quartet. Her performances have been included at the Fondation Cartier in Paris, Unlimited 21 Festival in Wels, Austria, Other Minds Brink series in San Francisco, Radio France broadcast, A L'improviste and at The Stone in New York City. Theresa holds an MFA in Performance and Improvisation from Mills College and a BS in Product Design from Stanford University.