24/25 Season Announcements
Hello, friends.
Greetings from Houston, Texas.
Happy September. Happy Mid-Autumn Festival. 中秋节快乐。
It’s a time of celebration. Gatherings, reunions, harvest. Planting seeds, sowing seeds. It’s all the same - beginning again, “Wanting to Start Again”. That’s the theme of this season. For Duo, for Windwood. The green amongst the burning red, the void white. Because that is also the theme: fire and ice. “Towards the Flame” - my solo recital tour.
Before the updates, a few reflections. Because we vowed: remember to remember. This keeps us grateful. This keeps us humble and awed.
The winter of 2024 has taken the Windwood Trio to Ottawa, Airdrie, and Banff. April was Winnipeg with the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra, Houston with the Dietz-Wang Duo, and Leaf Music’s release of “Black Sea, Orange Tree”. May was Duo Perdendosi’s “Dark Tales” tour in Hungary, Romania, and Czechia, coming home through Toronto and Montreal. June: Lunenburg - LAMP Composition Academy. July: Windwood Music Festival 2024. This one really devastated us, in all the most beautiful, heartwrenching ways. August: back at LAMP with Barbara Hannigan. And that takes us to now, September. Living the most cherished daily magics of a new life (journal here). Also practicing. But also, living.
Now, a few announcements.
I’m very excited to share that I will be touring with Debut Atlantic in the 2025/26 season, performing across some of my most treasured parts of Canada - Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland from February 6-22, 2026.
This solo recital program “Towards the Flame” features Chopin, Scriabin, Stravinsky, and a new commission by Alice Ping Yee Ho, "A Manic Ride Through Lollipop Hell."
I will also be touring this program in October across Houston, Ottawa, and Montreal.
10/10 Houston Central Public Library, Houston
10/13 Memorial Classical Series, Houston
10/19 Beaverbrook Community Concert Series, Ottawa
10/25 Redpath Hall, Montreal
Details here.
For Duo Perdendosi, we will be performing with Lyrica Baroque in New Orleans and Xenia Concerts in Toronto. Our tour next spring will take us to Western Canada and USA.
10/26 “Multicultural Sounds of Louisiana”, New Orleans
12/7 Xenia Concert Meridian Hall, Toronto
As for Windwood Music Festival, our team is already hard at work on the next season from August 3-18, 2025. We’ll also be back from February 4-8, 2025 for our winter community engagement week.
More details will be confirmed soon for 2025. But for now, the season kick off tonight with my one and only partner in crime David Dietz on cello. We will be performing Shostakovich, Poulenc, and Kodály at the Archway Gallery for the exhibit, "Adam and Eve and the iPhone".
As always, thank you each dearly, for your time and attention.
As always, it’s a privilege to share this journey with you all.
See ya, hear ya soon.
Warmly,
Tong
