The Mills College Music Department and Songlines Series present:
Theresa WongMonday, October 19th
7:30 pm
Ensemble Room, Music Building
Admission: Free
Local composer/cellist
Theresa Wong will perform a short set of songs for voice and cello as well as discuss her work on a site specific improvised opera, "O Sleep."
Theresa Wong is an improviser and composer based in the San Francisco Bay Area whose work encompasses music, theater and the visual arts. Current projects include: O Sleep, an improvised opera launched into progress at the Headlands Center for the Arts which explores the conundrum of sleep life, Call It Culture, a cello duo written for and performed with Joan Jeanrenaud; and Disasters of War, inspired by Francisco Goya's etchings, a duo performed with Carla Kihlstedt at the Meridian Gallery for cello, violin and voices. Her performances have been included at the Fondation Cartier in Paris, Unlimited 21 Festival in Wels, Austria, Other Minds Brink series in San Francisco, and at The Stone in New York City. Theresa holds an MFA in Performance and Improvisation from Mills College and a BS in Product Design from Stanford University.
www.theresawong.org
for more information contact:
John Bischoff, Music Department
Mills College
5000 MacArthur Blvd.
Oakland, CA 94613
510-430-2331
Mills College is located off 580 freeway in Oakland. Take the MacArthur Blvd. exit (just after High St.), turn right at the bottom of the exit, and enter the college immediately on your left through the College gates.
http://www.mills.edu/academics/undergraduate/mus/concerts_and_songlines.php
Cost: FREE