“Cynthia Lee Wong is courteously bold and resolved to attain great success.  She is determined to embrace not only the avant-garde audience but all classical enthusiasts or indeed all music lovers…Shamelessly beautiful is this music [of hers], free of all preconceptions of the old avant-gardists, entirely dedicated to the moment…”      (Three Portraits, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra) 

- Süddeutsche Zeitung  

“[T]he sound shimmers like delicate porcelain china. Cynthia Lee Wong, a 22-year-old American...produces distinctive sounds and feelings with an astonishing solid structure.” (Three Portraits, BRSO) 

- Münchner Merkur

“[T]he piece evinced a sure-footed integrity, and Wong was an extraordinarily self-possessed, self-effacing soloist.”    (Piano Concerto No. 2, New England Conservatory Youth Philharmonic Orchestra)

- Boston Phoenix

 

“The [Fugato] is full of explosions, dynamism and a dancing disposition.  Written in a 'modern' musical language with free use of harmony, dissonance, and hard expressionism, it does not attempt to seduce us but rather to awaken us.”  (Recorded by pianist Lilia Boyadjieva on her Around the Fugue CD. Available on www.naxos.com.)                                                                                          

- Haris Vrondos, composer

       

UPCOMING PERFORMANCES

Wong  New Work (TMC Commission, world premiere)

commissioned by the Tanglewood Music Center

with generous support from the Paul Jacobs Memorial Commissions Fund

August 7, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Theatre

Tanglewood Music Center

For more information and to purchase tickets,

please visit the Tanglewood 2009 Festival of Contemporary Music.

Photography by George J. Kunze.

All music and drawings by Cynthia Lee Wong.