Calendar
Sunday March 30. 2008
8:30 PM
TAYLOR HO BYNUM AND SPIDERMONKEY STRINGS
ROULETTE more...
Monday March 26. 2008
8:30
CELESTIAL MOONBEAMS FUNK
ROULETTE more...
Tuesday March 25. 2008
8:30PM
JASON KAO HWANG/ EDGE
ROULETTE more...
Monday March 16. 2008
9PM-12AM
THE SULU SERIES
The Bowery Poetry Club more...
Wednesday March 12. 2008
8:30PM
SOUND VISION ORCHESTRA: TRIBUTE TO JEFF HOYER
ROULETTE more...
Sunday March 9. 2008
8PM
INVITATION TO SPRING
THE LIVING THEATER more...
Sunday February 24. 2008
1:00PM
COMPOSERS VOICE
Jan Hus Church more...
Sunday January 6. 2008
9:00 pm
JASON KAO HWANG/ EDGE
Jimmy's Restaurant more...
News
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 20 cues for "Young and Restless in China," a two-hour FRONTLINE special that will be broadcast on PBS this coming June. There will be a one-week theatrical run in NYC this spring, TBA.
"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.
EDGE is #14 on the CMJ (USA) and #4 on the EARSHOT (Canada) radio charts.
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.
From April 25-May 7, 2006 I toured with Portugal, Slovakia, Hungary, and Italy with Ravish Momin's Trio Tarana. Our second CD, "Live at the Smithsonian" was released by the Polish label Nottwo Records on May 1st. Shanir Bluemenkrantz and I left Trio Tarana shortly after our return to New York City.
