SHAW PONG LIU
violinist | composer | educator | community-builder
Shaw Pong Liu is a violinist, composer, educator, creative visionary and community-builder. She has spent the past two decades designing and leading creative music and art projects for community dialogue and healing. As an artist she relishes the improvisatory possibilities of collaboration and the creative potential held by the people in a room, working with professional artists, scientists, community organizers, and community members of all backgrounds to co-create inclusive and transformative listening-based experiences.
Violinist and community-builder Shaw Pong Liu creates transformative listening spaces for dialogue and healing through deep collaboration across disciplines.
Her work seeks to:
Nurture deep listening
Live, site-specific violin and erhu performance
Build community through participatory music and art-making
Collaborative, cross-cultural and multidiscipinary performances and projects
Create new musical experiences that foster connection and curiosity
Build trust and connection through co-creation
Lead Artist/Designer for full-cycle community-based music, art and dialogue projects
Participatory music and dialogue sessions for trust, understanding and listening
Audience-engaged compositions
Invite healing and dialogue across differences
How can the transformative power of music help repair fractured lives?
What can we create together that is impossible to make alone?
