China Tour 2025 — Tong Wang

Very excited to share that David and I are funded by the Canada Council to tour in China this May/June. This has been a longtime dream and deeply personal project for me to pay tribute to my immigrant parents and return to visit their hometowns in Hunan and Harbin.

Thank you to the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing for inviting us.

We will be featuring Alice Ping Yee Ho’s “Four Impressions of China”, Fuhong Shi’s “The Reed”, and premiering a new commission by Wendy Lee.
5/26 Chinese University of Hong Kong
6/6 Central Conservatory of Beijing

Houston friends, we’ll also be performing this program a few times before hitting the road!
4/13 House Concert (private)
4/16 @12PM Houston Public Library
4/19 @7PM Memorial Classical Series

Looking forward to sharing this music with you all

We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.

#BringingTheArtsToLife
@canada.council @thechineseuniversityofhongkong @davidietz @alice_hopingyee @houstonpubliclibrary

“As a member of the Chinese diaspora, I commissioned “Four Impressions of China” in 2023 by fellow first-generation immigrant musician Alice Ping Yee Ho to further explore, understand, and rediscover my roots while paying homage to my parent’s personal stories of struggle and resilience as immigrants. “

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“Four Impressions of China” is a cello-piano tour by pianist Tong Wang and cellist David Dietz across China. The recital program features the international premiere of a Canada Council commissioned work by the Canadian-Chinese composer Alice Ping Yee Ho, “Four Impressions of China”, Turkish composer Fazil Say’s “Four Cities”, along with Chinese composer Fuhong Shi’s “Reed” and a new commission by the Hong Kongese composer Wendy Lee. This project will be presented in collaboration with the Central Conservatory of Music Beijing, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

This program explores the themes of cultural roots for Chinese immigrants and diaspora - more specifically, both the internal and external challenges of finding, imagining, and idealizing our cultural roots through nostalgia, collective memory, and geographic means. Expressing that nostalgia through a dialogue of traditional and contemporary Chinese-Canadian music and capturing the longing for rootedness, homecoming, and belonging is the core of this program. This tour program aims at better understanding the roots of traditional music from different regions of China in order to advocate for their role and significance in the context of Canadian-Chinese contemporary music.