Calendar
Monday August 3.
8 pm
Local Lingo with Special Guest, Joe McPhee
Local 269 more...
Sunday August 1.
TBA
JASON KAO HWANG/ EDGE
A Gathering of Tribes
Charlie Parker Festival more...
Sunday July 26.
6pm
Jason Kao Hwang/ Steve Swell duo
Downtown Music Gallery more...
Saturday June 27.
8PM
JASON KAO HWANG/ EDGE
JazzFest Internationale more...
Friday June 26.
9pm
JASON KAO HWANG/ EDGE
Vancouver International Jazz Festival more...
Sunday June 21.
10PM
JASON KAO HWANG/ EDGE
Coco66 more...
Tuesday June 16.
5:00PM
SABIR MATEEN ENSEMBLE
Bowery Poetry Club/ ESP series more...
Monday June 15.
9PM
PATRICIA PARKER DANCE
VISION FESTIVAL 14 more...
Monday June 15.
7pm
JASON KAO HWANG/ SPONTANEOUS RIVER
VISION FESTIVAL 14 more...
Sunday June 14.
6:45 pm
Patricia Spears Jones/ Jason Kao Hwang
VISION FESTIVAL 14, Abrons Arts Center more...
Friday June 12.
7pm
Miriam Parker/Jason Kao Hwang/Joe Daley
VISION FESTIVAL 14, Abrons Art Center, Main stage more...
Tuesday June 9.
10:30 PM
Butch Morris, 'Erotic Eulogy', text by Alan Graubard
Vision Festival 14
Abrons Art Center more...
Wednesday May 27.
10pm
JASON KAO HWANG/ SPONTANEOUS RIVER
Galapagos more...
Tuesday February 3.
8PM
Lex Samu Ensemble
Clemente Soto Velez Cultural and Educational Center more...
Thursday January 29.
8pm
Brad Farberman's Expected Draw
Bowery Poetry Club more...
Monday January 26.
8PM
JASON KAO HWANG/ EDGE
Yippie Cafe more...
Saturday January 24.
8pm
Dom Minasi String Quartet
5c Cultural Center more...
Monday January 19.
7pm
Saco Yasuma's YOIN'
Yippie Cafe more...
News
It was an honor to be nominated as the 2009 “String Player of the Year” by the Jazz Journalists Association, along with Mark Feldman, Erik Friedlander, Fred Longberg-Holm, Jenny Schinman and the eventual winner, Billy Bang. Congrats to Billy!
Pat Frisco of WHFR-FM Radio has chosen the composition "From East Sixth Street" on "Stories Before Within," as one of his "2008 Favorites." Thanks Pat!
My Spring 09 residency with the class of Dr. David Chevan at Southern Connecticut State University concluded with a great concert. I'll post Dr. Chevan's letter of thanks soon.
I just completed scoring ten short films, directed by Nancy M. Tong, for the Museum of Chinese in the Americas new permanent exhibit. Watch for the opening in the Spring, 2009.
"Stories Before Within" has been selected by CODA Magazine(Canada) as one of the Top Ten CDs of 2008.
OPUS has nominated Montreal's Quasar Saxophone Quartet for "Concert of the Year." This concert included my composition, "Within Moments," a mini-opera featuring baritone Tom Buckner.
"Stories Before Within" received an Honorable Mention for Best New Release in 2008 from ALL ABOUT JAZZ(New York).
In the Spring of 09 I'll lead workshops at Southern Connecticut State University.
In 2009, I'll be in both "Who's Who in America" and "Who's Who in the World." I've been included in "Who's Who in America since 2006.
For 2009, I have been selected for inclusion in both "Who's Who in America" and "Who's Who in the World." I was in "Who's Who in America" for 2006 -08.
STORIES BEFORE WITHIN has been released by Innova Records. Already it has reached #9 in the national CMJ radio charts! Go to Innova Records to purchase.
LOCAL LINGO, my duets with Sang Won Park, broke into the top 60 (chartbound) of the Jazz Week world radio charts. Jazz Week is comprised mainly of of mainstream NPR stations, so this is very gratifying.
I recently composed cues for "Young and Restless in China," a two-hour FRONTLINE special for WGBH, Boston.
"Tea and Justice, " a one-hour documentary about Asian American women in the NYPD, directed by Ermina Vinluan, edited by Sandrine Isambert has won two awards at the 2007 Queens International Film Festival - Best Documentary and Outstanding Contribution by a Filmmaker. I scored and performed the music for this film.
I served on a Point of Departure "What's New" panel alongside J.D. Parran and Russh Gershon, discussing cross-cultural collaborations with host Bill Shoemaker.
LOCAL LINGO has garnered wonderful reviews . Read them under "Press."
LOCAL LINGO has also appeared on weekly CMJ's Top Ten radio lists around the country.
Read all the wonderful reviews under "Press." You can purchase EDGE in my "Store." EDGE features Taylor Ho Bynum(cornet/flugelhorn), Andrew Drury(drum kit), Ken Filiano(string bass) and myself(composer/violin).
OPERA NEWS has selected "The Floating Box, A Story in Chinatown" as one of the top ten opera recordings of 2005. "The Floating Box" is available for purchase in my "Store."
On April 9th, 2006, I gave a lecture/presentation for "Music and the Asian Diaspora," an academic conference sponsored by the Westminster Choir College of Rider University in Princeton, NJ. Soprano Sandia Ang sang excerpts from my opera "The Floating Box, A Story in Chinatown," and I performed a violin improvisation.
