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I create music and dialogue experiences rooted in community - cultivating listening, healing, and connection.
My work extends to schools, institutions, and cross-cultural collaborations seeking meaningful engagement.
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My Work
Photos by Robert Torres
Music is the foundation of my practice - used as a tool for listening, dialogue, and community-building. Each project is developed collaboratively, ensuring experiences are grounded, responsive, and meaningful.
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Shaw Pong offers captivating live performances on violin, Chinese erhu, voice and singing bowls. Her music is diverse and multi-faceted, drawing from classical music, traditional Chinese repertoire, original songs, and improvised music.
Programs interweave storytelling and audience engagement for all ages. Bilingual (Mandarin/English) and cross-cultural Chinese performances are also available.
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Shaw Pong leads and collaboratively designs arts-based community-building projects using project-specific artistic practices, disciplines, and partners.
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Workshops, music-dialogue sessions and opening performance-presentations include:
Listening Meditation*
Music as Medicine*
Music for Healing and Dialogue
Sing Home: Exploring Our Roots
Finding Our Groove: the Art of Community-Building*
co-designed, custom sessions tailored to specific partner’s needs
*Available as a keynote with audience participation
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Shaw Pong takes on a select number of values-aligned composition commissions/collaborative projects per season
“Shaw Pong was so captivating. The children were mesmerized by her performance and she did a great job engaging them in learning Chinese vocabulary and answering questions. Her violin skills were incredible and we were transported to China through her stories. We had two year olds in the audience and they sat for the whole 45 minutes!”
Testimonials from past clients:
“Shaw Pong is a pleasure to work with. She has the unique ability to be both extremely collaborative and independently self driven. She deeply considers her work’s meaning and will go the extra mile to make sure it is executed and presented in a way that maximizes its impact. If you have the chance to work with her I highly recommend you take it.”
“We knew we could trust Shaw Pong to elevate the experience, and she did. It was stunning! Her gorgeous music set exactly the tone that we wanted. So many people commented on how beautifully the music invited them into the space and the experience.”
“If you’re looking for someone to create community in a beautiful and deeply meaningful way, then Shaw Pong is your go-to person. She brings a wonderful sensitivity and sense of relatedness to the room, embraces people with her music, invites people to be their most authentic self without fear or self-consciousness, and lets them be comfortable and safe in the shared moment”
“Shaw Pong‘s work stands out for her clear vision in creating a new work that connects many artists, neighbors, and histories. Rarely have we worked with someone who could weave together so many elements and gain the trust of so many over the course of a project.”
“Shaw Pong kept even the youngest audience members engaged without losing the interest of the adult attendees. It is rare for a program to truly have intergenerational appeal, but Shaw Pong’s Lunar New Year Celebration pulls it off brilliantly.”
Present and past partners include:
