| Theresa Wong Theresa Wong is an improviser and composer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her current work spans the areas of improvisation, composition, video, performance art and large scale performance pieces. After studying design, she became interested in an art form which would unite the visual arts with sound and performance. Current and recent projects include solo songs for cello, voice and piano, Call It Culture, a cello duo written for and performed with Joan Jeanrenaud, collaborations with Ellen Fullman and Kanoko Nishi, and Necessary Monsters, a theater set song cycle led by violinist Carla Kihlstedt. In 2006 she wrote, directed and performed an improvised opera, L( )VE, which was presented at Mills College in Oakland California. In 2005 she gave a solo show of improvisations on cello and amplified bicycle as well as a video piece at the Fondation Cartier in Paris as a part of the J'en rêve exhibition. Her performances have been included in the Unlimited 21 Festival in Wels, Austria, the Other Minds Brink series in San Francisco, the Radio France broadcast, A L'improviste, the Seattle Improvised Music Festival and at The Stone in New York City. She has collaborated and performed with such artists as Fred Frith, Tatsuya Nakatani, Joelle Leandre, Gianni Gebbia, Luciano Chessa, ROVA Saxophone Quartet, MaryClare Brzytwa and June Watanabe. Theresa completed an MFA in performance at Mills College in 2006 where she studied with Fred Frith, Alvin Curran, Annie Gosfield and cello with Gianna Abondolo and Joan Jeanrenaud. O1C Performances: Chronicle Hotel |
