February 2008; Estonia: Music from the Time of Marco Polo, with FA Schola
          (Festivitas Artium events)

December 2007; USA: Music from the Time of Marco Polo (馬可波羅時代的音樂), with FA Schola

17 November 2007; Suzhou, China: Performance as a visiting qin master
  Part of Yiyuan Qin Society's commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Wu Zhaoji

16 September 2007; Hilton Hotel, Melville, NY: Awards Ceremony of the Sumi-e Society of America
  Qin melodies with themes found in Chinese brush painting

13 May 2007, 1 PM; Board of Inquiry Room, Ellis Island National Monument, Ellis Island, New York
  Ancient Chinese silk-string zither music; one of E.I.'s Pacific Asian-American Heritage Month events

22 February 2007, 7 PM, Weehawken Nutrition Center, 201 Highwood Ave., Weehawken, New Jersey
  Chinese New Year solo qin performance for the Weehawken Public Library on the Marco Polo theme

16 - 18 February 2007, Parnu, Tartu and Tallinn, Estonia
  Chinese New Year performances with Fa Schola on the theme Music from the Time of Marco Polo

11 February 2007 (Sunday), Renee Weiler Concert Hall, Greenwich House Music School, New York City
  Lecture and performance on the Marco Polo theme at the annual meeting of the New York Qin Society
  (Event title : Reflections of Antiquity: Festival of Ancient Music from China: the Qin and the Konghou)

21 - 23 October 2006, Qionglai and Chengdu, Sichuan province
  Performances at the "Cultural Festival for the Guqin and Zhuo Wenjun"

18 October 2006 (Thursday), Central Conservatory, Beijing
  Performance in connection with the Beijing International Qin Music Week 2006,
  dedicated to the memory of Wu Jinglue (October 16th–19th)

4 December 2005 (Sunday), 8 PM, Beijing Normal University
  Performance organized by the Chinese Cultural Association of the university (see commemorative poem)

6 November 2005 (Sunday), 2 PM, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA
  Solo event in conjunction with Masterworks of Chinese Painting, In Pursuit of Mists and Clouds

4-10 Oct 2005 Tartu Early Music Festival (in Tartu, Estonia):
  Music from the Time of Marco Polo, Evening Melodies for the Silk String Zither, plus other events

2 October 2005 Meeting of the London Youlan Qin Society, London, England
  Preview of the Tartu Early Music Festival programs

19 February 2005 Beijing. Solo performance at the Hua Bao Zhai Gallery
  Wang Peng played one melody, Wu Zhao played two

8 February 2005 (Tue) 7.00 PM, Solo l/d and performance at Casa Asia, Barcelona,
  in the Palace of the Baron of Quadras (with help from Amics del Guqin)

27 October 2004 (Wed) 8.00 PM. Solo performance at NSI, San Diego;
  Music from Ming Dynasty Handbooks; co-sponsored by the Center for World Music
24 October 2004 (Sun) 7.00 PM. Narrated performance at Dizzy's San Diego;
  Music for Meditation and Self-Cultivation; complements the above

12 October 2004 (Tue) 7 PM. Performance at The Kitchen, NYC
  Part of Necessary Translations, with David Hinton (four other poets also read their translations)

10 September 2004 Solo performance at the Honolulu Academy of Arts
  in conjunction with the exhibition Fantastic Mountains (5 August - 3 October 2004)

3 September 2004 8.00 P.M.; Solo performance, Clarion Music Center, San Francisco
  Fantastic Mountains (preview of the 10 September program)

14 August 2004 12.00 noon; Solo performance at the New York Chinese Scholar's Garden, Staten Island
  Fantastic Mountains (preview of the 10 September program)

17 July 2004 1.30 PM; Potomoc Community Center, Potomoc, Maryland: A performance organized by the Washington Chinese Literary Society, with three other members of the New York Qin Society

15 April 2004 Solo performance at Rutgers University
  for combined classes in Chinese Thought and Chinese Literature

12 April 2004 Solo performance at SUNY, New Paltz
  Joint presentation: Asian Studies Program plus School of Fine and Performing Arts

3 April 2004 Performance at the Terrapin Art Gallery, Chelsea;
  organized by the Academy of Muse

13 March 2004 Performance with Chinese poetry reading by translator David Hinton,
  at the Dactyl Foundation, 64 Grand Street, Manhattan.

12 February 2004 Beijing. Solo performance at the Hua Bao Zhai Gallery
  (reported on China TV's Meiri Wenhua Guobao).

7 February 2004 Hong Kong City Hall Theatre; a performance organized by ROI Productions; the other performers were qin players Wu Wenguang from Beijing, Tse Chun-yan from Hong Kong, and Hida Tatsushi from Japan, plus the komungo six string zither player Cheong Dae-seog from Korea. (Originally scheduled for April 2003 but postponed due to the SARS epidemic; see poster [174 KB])

7 Nov 2003 NY Metropolitan Art Museum, with Yuan Jung-Ping; the Trefoil Ensemble played early Western music;
  I used a qin in the Met collection; part of the 9th Conference of RCMI (Research Center on Music Iconography)
Also at the Met: the Audio Guide for Dreams of Yellow Mountain included part of a track from my Shen Qi Mi Pu CD set.

25-28 Sep 2003 Tartu Early Music Festival (in Tartu, Estonia):
Historically Informed Performance

26-31 August 2003 Private performances in Beijing

26 July 2003 (Saturday, 3-5 pm); Chinese Scholar's Garden, Staten Island Botanical Garden
solo qin performances by members of the New York Qin Society

12/13 July 2003 (Saturday 8pm; Sunday 7 pm); Colony Arts Center in Woodstock, NY: Music from the Time of Marco Polo; accompanied China photographs by Howard Finkelson (see next; no dance).

28/29 June 2003 (Saturday 7.30pm; Sunday 2.30pm); Kaatsbaan International Dance Center in Tivoli, New York:
Silk Stone Moving : A dance-theater collaboration of East-West fusion combining projected photo-abstracts
by Howard Finkelson, my qin music, and dance by Michael Mao Dance. (Silk Stone Moving has review, articles, etc.)

22 June 2003 (Sunday, 3-4 pm); Chinese Scholar's Garden, Staten Island Botanical Garden
solo qin performance with discussion; followed the Curator's Tour of the garden by Judy Whitbeck.

16 May 2003 Recital at the Harvard-Yenching Institute

27 March 2003 (9-11 PM); meeting of the Early Medieval China Group at the Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Hilton Hotel, New York. Melodies with connections to the Six Dynasties period; with Yuan Jung-Ping

Other

Recent performances with other qin players include,

23 November 2002 at the China Institute, New York, I took part in the New York Qin Society Second Annual Conference. I played Dunshi Cao, Xing Tan, Feng Qiu Huang and the sung version of Jiu Kuang.

7 October 2002, at Swarthmore College, with Wu Zhao, a recital and a presentation at a class on Chinese civilization.

7 September 2002, at the City Hall Theatre in Hong Kong, the Qin Recital of the Three Styles. My style was "reconstructed melodies using silk strings"; the other players were Tong Kin-woon (his personal style) and Jiang Kangsheng (a student in the 1950s of Pu Xuezhai and other famous qin masters).

1 June 2002, during my alumni weekend at Haverford College, I gave a small recital.

28 April 2002, on alumni weekend at the Asheville School, my old prep school, I gave the Founder's Day performance. Here is a letter to the students.

27 February 2001, City Hall Recital Hall, Hong Kong Qin Recital by Tong and John Thompson

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