Happy Year of the Tiger!
Happy Lunar New Year, everyone! Hope you are all staying safe and well. I’m deeply humbled and excited to celebrate the occasion with the release of my first album “Once Upon a Pumpkin: A Musical Fairy Tale” featuring works by Mozart, Prokofiev, Liszt, and Wild.
“Once Upon a Pumpkin” is now available as a digital album and physical CD!
After some delay and hesitation, I’ve decided to still go through with releasing this live concert album.
This is me, imperfections and all. Live, alive, human.
I have great respect for the craft of those talented artists and incredible sound engineer teams whom spend tireless hours piecing together 100+ takes to create the perfect flawless recording, and one day I hope to experiment with a project like that as well. But for now, there is a purpose to me taking the courage to share this current version of myself as a person and artist.
This is one of my favorite states of being - raw, passionate, in the moment, sharing a spontaneous, one-of-a-kind moment with the audience, exchanging mysterious energies with each individual presence there in that concert space, and then, fathoming some new collective awareness, awe, magic. Something like that. The live concert.
So I hope you will join me in re-experiencing this musical fairy tale. Because it’s never the same. Every time we re-read the words, replay the notes, we have an opportunity to discover something new, deeper, even more wondrous in the details and simplicity.
The best gift is the gift of time. If you will, take 60 minutes to listen through this whole story, with some nice hot oolong tea, maybe a piece of mochi cake or matcha cookie …
Wishing you all a wondrous 2022 and thank you again and again for your time and attention.
Sincerely yours,
tw <3
Tong Wang (she/her)
McGill University | MM, GDP, DM
New England Conservatory | BM
Global Leaders Program | Lincoln Center Stage
https://tong-wang.com