Theresa Wong

Theresa Wong is a composer, cellist, vocalist, and intermedia artist active at the intersection of composition, improvisation, and the synergy of multiple disciplines. Her works include Fluency of Trees for solo cello and voice which premiered at the Other Minds Festival in 2022, She Dances Naked Under Palm Trees, composed for pianist Sarah Cahill for The Future is Female project, As We Breathe, an installed song commissioned by Long Beach Opera for the 2020 Songbook, and The Unlearning, twenty-one songs inspired by Goya’s Disasters of War etchings and released on Tzadik in 2011. Her collaboration with Long String Instrument inventor Ellen Fullman includes Harbors, released on room40 and chosen as one of Wire’s top 50 releases of 2020, and Soundless, which was presented at the Volume Festival in Sidney in 2023 and MOCA Los Angeles in 2024. As a 2024 Guggenheim Fellow in Music Composition, Wong is currently developing Vox Lumina, an intermedia opera and installation which aims to shed light on marginalized identities. Recent commissions include works for San Francisco Girls Chorus, Splinter Reeds, Peninsula Women’s Chorus, and Del Sol Quartet. Wong has shared her work internationally at venues including Fondation Cartier, Paris; Café Oto and The Barbican Centre, London; Asian Art Museum and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco; and The Stone and Roulette in New York City. Wong is the founder of fo’c’sle, a record label dedicated to adventurous music from the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. For more information, please visit theresawong.org