November Dates

Written By Tong Wang

Flying back home to winter wonderland for a week to perform Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time with the Red Deer Symphony Orchestra musicians. Then returning for the first Skye’s Salon of the season, “The Tales that Stay With Us,” followed by a series of concerts with the newly formed Mountain Time Trio, a lecture recital with Duo Perdendosi for the McGill “Climate Crisis & Climate Actions” course, and an exciting collaboration between Le Pub Classique and the Sapphonix Collective!

Events

  • 11/11 @ 2PM “Resonance of Remembrance”
    Red Deer Museum + Art Gallery
    Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time with the Red Deer Symphony Orchestra musicians

  • 11/12 @ 5PM Skye’s Salon #6 “The Tales that Stay With Us”

  • 11/14 @ 7PM Mountain Time Trio at Kensington Place

  • 11/15 @ 7PM Mountain Time Trio @ Fondation Kin
    Rachmaninoff, Esmail, Hisaishi/Chu

  • 11/20 @ 2:30PM Duo Perdendosi Lecture Recital “Wanting to Start Again”
    McGill Climate Crisis and Climate Actions Course

  • 11/22 @ 7PM Le Pub Classique x Sapphonix Collective “Salon au Centre Ville”
    Fondation Kin

  • 11/28 @ 12PM Piano Oboe Duo wth Yewon Kim “Healing Notes”
    Cedar Cancer Center

See y’all.

xoxo,

Skye.pianist

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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