Creative Projects
Community
A selection of community-based music, dialogue and cross-cultural collaborations. Click on any image to learn more.
Performance
Notable performance venues for solo and chamber performances include: Freer-Sackler Museum at Smithsonian Institute, Carnegie Hall, Harvard University, Illuminus Festival, Chautauqua Institute, Museum of African-American History, College of the Holy Cross, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston Center for the Arts, Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, John F. Kennedy Library
Violin • Erhu • Storytelling • Cross-Cultural Collaborations
solo performance at Museum of African-American History, Boston
“For Violin” - Ed Bland
Palpitations
bird and ocean-based storytelling composition by Shaw Pong Liu
豫乡行 -
solo erhu perfomance at Shojo, Boston Chinatown (excerpt）
Nintendo Bird
excerpt of birdsong-based composition by Shaw Pong Liu, performed by Soul Yatra Trio
Composition
Conference of the Birds
music for international dance theatre project
Peace is a Woman in a House
music based on Water Graffiti for Peace public art project, exploring ideas of personal and community ideas of peace
“You Cannot” & “Evidence”
music based on interviews with mothers who have lost sons to homicide
Secret Grove - for all to sing
participatory community hymn
Arise
site-specific bird-song based composition for 18 string players
Education : Teaching + Speaking
Notable teaching workshop partners include:
Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute, Washington National Opera, Project Zero, Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education, Wellesley College’s Civic Action Lab, Chatauqua Institute, Youth Music Culture Guangzhou (at the invitation of cellist Yo-Yo Ma)
Notable speaking engagements include:
Conferences: Chorus America, Americans for the Arts, MIT’s Listening to the City, Kennedy Center REACH Opening Festival, National Park Service: 100 Years of Arts in the Parks, Next Wave Summit
“The school leaders loved the experience, particularly how they felt supported and safe in what could be a deeply vulnerable context. Shaw Pong designed activities that helped them open themselves to others, develop deeper and more empathetic relationships with each other, and dig deep into themselves to surface their thinking and feelings.”