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 is animated by the following questions:

How can we listen more deeply?

Live violin performance & guided walking meditation, Secret Grove installation at MassQ Ball, Harvard University’s Arnold Arboretum.

How can the transformative power of music help repair fractured lives?

Musical Memorial to loved ones lost to homicide, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

What can we create together that is impossible to create alone?

Code Listen: music for healing and dialogue community ensemble of Boston police, mothers who are homicide survivors, and teen artists

How can creative experiences invite connection and build trust?

Lunar New Year Bilingual Violin & Erhu Performance, Boston Public Library

How can creative experiences invite connection and transformation?