This is a public hello, but I do know many of us are facing all kinds of private challenges, trials, grief alongside joy and celebration. Please don’t hesitate to reach out and say hello. So many of you have day in and day out stayed by my side, in small and huge ways, with quiet, tender, or unapologetically loud, daring, and extravagant gestures of love. I would be humbled to be gifted a chance to listen, to give back - any moment of camaraderie or connection, it could be as simple as saying, hello. Otherwise, I hope to meet you and hear you soon on one of my adventures.

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And that’s a (95-page) wrap! 

This dissertation has been 5+2+1 years (DMA+MM+GDP) in the making. It has been not just an extensively challenging research paper, but also a wonderfully fun, derpy, silly, heartfelt passion project. It has led me to places I would have never expected - so many creative experiments, collaborations, concert performances, and much more to come~ (horror-anime opera with Alice Ping Yee Ho still in the works!!!)  

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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.

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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.

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