Her current project, A Bird a Day, is a daily creative exploration of dawns, birds, and music. Recent productions include Soldiers' Tales Untold, a musical-narrative production mixing veterans’ stories, music, and audience dialogue about the long-term costs of war; Of a River, a live performance-installation transforming a three-story glass atrium with five dancers, six musicians, and 600 yards of silk in Dayton, OH; and The Ligeti Project, a series of performances with improvising string quartet unraveling the music of Hungarian composer Gyorgy Ligeti.
A native Californian, Shaw Pong is currently based in Boston, where she performs amplified and looped violin with young poets in the urban hip-hop slam poetry production, "ARTiculation" and regularly appears as guest soloist with MIT's Ensemble Robot and Gamelan GalakTika. Her classical performances include Bang-on-a-Can All-Stars and the Boston Modern Orchestra Project. A graduate of U.C. Berkeley with a Masters in Performance from the New England Conservatory of Music, Shaw Pong is the recipient of the Eisner Prize, the Hertz Travelling Fellowship, and was 2008 and 2011 Artist-in-Residence and 2010 Program Director at the Blue Sky Project.
