Conference of the Birds (2018)

direction: Wendy Jehlen dance: Marcel Gbeffa (Benin), Kae Ishimoto (Japan), Luciane Ramos (Brazil), Yasin Anar (Turkey), Sarveshan Gangen (India/South Africa), Mohamed Shika Yousry (Egypt), Danang Pamungkas (Indonesia), Wendy Jehlen (US) music:Eric Raynaud (France) & Shaw Pong Liu (US) projection: David Bengali lights: Stephen Petrilli set design: Anton Uhl

Sing Home (2018)

An overview video of my work as Pao Arts Center Artist-in-Residence Oct 2018-July 2019 in Chinatown, Boston. See the complete song library at: www.singhome.org

Code Listen 2016: Music for Healing and Dialogue

Code Listen Police-Youth Music-Dialogue Workshops

Workshops and performances, summer of 2016, with Boston police and youth artists at Mattapan Teen Center and Schubert Theatre.

Musical Memorials at Boston City Hall 2018

With Javier Caballero, cello

The Musical Memorials Project is a collaboration between families surviving homicide, lead artist musician Shaw Pong Liu (Boston Artist-in-Residence, 2016), the Code Listen project, the Louis D. Brown Peace Institute, the Boston Police Department, and Boston-area professional, collegiate, and amateur musicians. The project seeks to build community, and support healing and dialogue through musical and photo memorial offerings.

Code Listen Fall 2017

Workshops and performances with Boston police, youth, and mothers and siblings surviving homicide, fall 2017. With Boston Police members: Hubie Valmont, saxophone, Detective B-3, Jeremiah Benton, bass Detective, Boston Police Academy; John Burns, drums, Sergeant, C-11 (retired); Kerline Desir, voice/rap, Officer B-3; Kim Tavares, voice, Officer D-4; Steven Collette, guitar, Officer C-6; youth member Dejanae White, voice, Teen Empowerment members Carrie Mays, voice, and Gabriel Petit, voice/rap; Legacy Lives On members: Brooklyn Burns, voice/percussion; Carla Sheffield, voice/rap; Kilra Hilton, voice/rap; Leann Taylor, voice; Marquez Dozier-Turner, cajon; Mahogony Payne, voice/rap; Ramona Jones, voice; Zyariah Sheffield, voice.

Musical Memorials at Mother's Day Walk for Peace 2018

Code Listen Police-Youth Music-Dialogue Workshops

Musical Memorials at Boston City Hall 2018

Musical Memorials at Mother's Day Walk for Peace 2018

Peace is a Woman in a House (2015)

Composition for 8 female vocalist-improvisers, Chinese calligrapher and violin exploring the Chinese character for peace, 安, a roof over a woman. Based on community interviews from the Water Graffiti for Peace public art project. Commissioned, performed and collaboratively-staged by the Lorelei Ensemble, directed by Beth Willer, with Chinese calligrapher Mike Mei.

Water Graffiti for Peace (2014)

Public art project engaging passersby in Chinese calligraphy and conversations about peace Over 500 people participated in 7 public sessions between August and September in Boston Chinatown and Downtown Boston. Collaboration with Chinese calligrapher Mike Mei, the Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center, and five Boston teen artist-researchers.

2, 3, 4 (2012)

Collaboration across 2nd, 3rd and 4th dimensions with Rodney Veal, choreographer, Katherine Mann, visual artist.

Soldiers' Tales Untold (2010)

Original musical-narrative production interweaving veterans' stories, live music, and audience discussion about war and PTSD.

Classical Violin - My roots!

Arise for 18 String Players (2013)

Site-specific, birdsong-based composition for 18 solo string players and the Calderwood Hall at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA. Commissioned and premiered by A Far Cry on April 4, 2013.

Sunbar (2015)

Public art project exploring ways to stay warm and connected during cold Boston winters through bus shelter interventions with interactive live music and free drinks. In collaboration with Cornell Coley, percussion; Aziza Robison-Goodnight, host artist; John Turner, bass; and 10 teen artist-researchers from the Urbano Project.

A Bird a Day

an exploration of birdsong, sunrises and creativity, 2010-2014

Translations (2011)

Site-specific, birdsong-based outdoor performance for cast of 20 musicians and dancers encompassing square-mile of park over varied terrain, using music derived from the local birds. In collaboration with choreographer Rodney Veal. Aullwood Garden MetroPark, Englewood, OH, July 2011