2022 Updates!!! OMG, LAMP, Verbier, Napoule Foundation

So excited to announce some news for the rest of 2022!

  1. Opera McGill: OMG Beta Lab (Montreal, Canada)
    Finally! What immense privilege (and fun!) it’s been collaborating with the wildly imaginative composer Alice Ho on setting the libretto of “Labyrinth of Tears” to music. And now, director Jennifer Szeto and the wonderful Opera McGill team will be bringing these excerpts to life along with four other new thrilling operas by my colleagues!

  2. Lunenburg Academy of Music (LAMP): NOW Festival (Lunenburg, Canada)
    Looking forward to returning to LAMP for another memorable summer, this time featuring a solo recital with repertoire by unique, diverse voices in honor of my recent ventures into art and social-cultural identity issues, as well as various collaborative performances. The NOW Festival features new music set to the words of L'nu Mi'kmaq poet Michelle Sylliboy.

  3. Verbier Festival: Summer Academy (Verbier, Switzerland)

    This is another dream come true! I have been invited for a “Creative Project Development Residency” at the Verbier Academy this summer to work with various faculty including Pedja Muzijevic and Karen Zorn on innovative programming. I will be developing and workshopping a new interactive, impact-based project, details to be announced soon!

  4. La Napoule Art Foundation: Canadian Artist Residency (Mandelieu-la-Napoule, France)

    Another recently received thrilling news! In November 2022, I will be joining 10 fellow Canadian artists across creative disciplines to spend one month on the Côte d’Azur. At the The Château de La Napoule, I will be developing my novel manuscript for “The [blank] Journal" and building it as a multimedia digital sound-novel.

More details for each project soon! :) Can’t wait to share all this art and life and love with you all~

Cheers,

Tong

 

Schedule

  • April 3-7: OMG Beta Lab workshops on “Labyrinth of Tears”

  • April 8 @ 6PM: concert in Wirth Opera Studio

  • June 13-26: Lunenburg, NS

  • June 15 @ 7PM: opening concert of the NOW Festival, solo piano recital featuring composers Alice Ho, Delong Wang, Reena Esmail, Marcos Balter, and Martin Scherzinger. From China to Canada, India, Central America, and West Africa to the US, this program celebrates traditional cultural heritages and addresses diasporic identity issues.

  • June 17 @ 7PM: collaborative recital featuring Belizean composer Errollyn Wallen’s “The Girl in My Alphabet” for piano 4-hands with pianist Esmee and Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov’s Postlude III and American composer Dorothy Chang’s “Lydia” for bass and piano with bassist Joshua Bullen.

  • June 22 @ 7PM: The Verona String Quartet and LAMP residents present 21st century music featuring the World Premiere performance of Canadian composer Matthias McIntire's Bluegreen Ecstatic Grey for 16 instruments.

  • Jun 24-25: NOW Festival: New Music to the Words of L'nu Mi'kmaq Poet Michelle Sylliboy
    Acclaimed Composers Robert Aitken, Ana Sokolović, Dinuk Wijeratne, Gavin Fraser, Johannes Schöllhorn and Ivan Fedele present Lamp emerging composers and instrumentalists bringing indigenous language to life through new music at LAMP.

  • July 10-23: Verbier, Switzerrland
    Creative Project Development Residency

  • October 6: Montreal, QC
    McGill 5 à 7, “Crossview” with UTAU 2, multimedia film-poetry-sound art concert featuring works for 2 pianos 4 hands by Hisaishi, Sakamoto, Part, Shostakovich, and Scriabin

  • October 8: Montreal, QC
    “Vers la Flamme”, solo recital featuring works by Scriabin, Rachmaninoff, Shostakovich, and Stravinsky

  • October 10-30: Lunenburg, NS

  • October 16: cello-piano recital with Francis Carr

  • October 23: piano quintet recital with the Verona String Quartet

  • October 30: “Vers la Flamme”, solo recital featuring works by Scriabin, Rachmaninoff, Shostakovich, and Stravinsky

  • October 31-November 28: NaPoule France
    Canadian Artist Residency, development and presentation of “The [blank] Journal”

  • November 18-28
    Live interactive presentations of “The [blank] Journal”

 
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