2025 ... “Wanting to Start Again”

Written By Tong Wang

Hi friends,

January has been full of work - private work. Practicing, more practicing, redefining what it means to truly listen. To hear. To open and invite even more colours, more nuances, more capacity for communication. January has also been a heavy dose personal work, but more on that another time, another place.

Now. Looking forward to being back at public work again. From hospitals to libraries to cafes to concert stages - all profoundly humbling, necessary work. Even in these uncertain times, with so many issues that seem larger than us, it is still precisely the right time to do what we do as artists, musicians - to plant tiny seeds of kindness, resilience, camaraderie. To “want to start again”. That’s the theme, of this year, of last, of every year we continue to relearn how to survive the pendulum of hope and despair. How to grow. Marching in circles, it seems. But not quite. There is a movement, a change, tiny variations. And we will reveal it. Listen.

As always, thank you for your time and attention.

Yours,

Tong

February dates

Windwood Music Festival Winter 2025 -(Windwood Trio)

  • Feb 8: Mayor’s Night of the Art  (7pm)

  • Feb 10: Airdrie Public Library (7pm)

  • Feb 11: Bethany Airdrie (2pm) 

  • Feb 12: Airdrie Abilities Center (11am)

  • Feb 12th: 948 Brewery (5pm)

  • Feb 13th: Cochrane Urgent Care (11am)

  • Feb 13th: High River Hospital (4pm)

  • Feb 14th: Genesis Place (12pm)

  • Feb 14th: Cedarwood Station (2:30pm) 

  • Feb 14th: Good Earth (5:30pm)

  • Feb 15: Masterclass at the Windwood House (10am)

  • Feb 15th: Didsbury Hospital (2pm)

Elegiac Trios (Benjamin-Dietz-Wang Trio)

Grand Junction Symphony Competition Finals 

  • Feb 23rd: Love Recital Hall (5pm)

Tong Wang

Tong Wang is a Canadian artist leading innovative initiatives across areas of performance, research, and community engagement. Her projects explore the role of art in relation to identity, culture, and current social-political issues. As a soloist and chamber musician, Tong has performed with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Red Deer Symphony Orchestra, and ensembles across North America and Europe. As a multidisciplinary artist, she has written the libretto of a new opera, “Labyrinth of Tears”, funded by the Canada Council, FRQSC, and SSHRC, participated in the Napoule Arts Foundation Residency in France, and published an award-winning photo-essay in the literary magazine Carte Blanche. Her other projects include the creative performances “Song of Praise”, “Ghiblilane”, “Once Upon a Pumpkin”, and research on the aesthetic of “cuteness” in popular and classical music. Tong recently toured a recital on multiculturalism, “我们Us” in Lunenburg, Montreal, Basel, and presented the interactive concerts “We’re Not Really Strangers” and “My Neighbours Totoro and Claude!” at the Verbier Festival. In 2022, Tong launched the Windwood Music Festival in Airdrie, Alberta to engage with and support rural farming communities through classical chamber music. In 2023, Tong will be touring with Duo Perdendosi across eastern US & Canada, as well as with Duo Incarnadine in Turkey and China to premiere a new commission by Alice Ho, Four Impressions of China. Using diverse mediums, Tong aims to share the power of art to reach across time, languages, borders, and cultures to connect people and kindle a shared understanding.

https://tong-wang.com
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