Shaw Pong Liu, Voilin

Violinist Shaw Pong Liu seeks to engage diverse communities with creative music and social dialogue by giving the audience an innovative experience of live music. Collaborating with artists from a wide range of disciplines, Ms. Liu creates genre-defying performances that create an interplay between written and improvised music with narration, storytelling, and movement. 

Recent productions include “Soldiers’ Tales Untold,”  a musical-narrative production mixing veterans’ stories, music, and audience dialogue about the long-term costs of war; “Of a River,” a live performance-installation transforming a three-story glass atrium with five dancers, six musicians, and 600 yards of silk in Dayton, OH; and  “The Ligeti Project,” a series of performances with improvising string quartet unravelling the music of Hungarian composer Gyorgy Ligeti.

A native Californian, Ms. Liu is currently based in Boston, where she performs amplified and looped violin with young poets in the urban hip-hop slam poetry production, “ARTiculation” and regularly appears as guest soloist with MIT’s Ensemble Robot and Gamelan GalakTika. Her classical performances include Bang-on-a-Can All-Stars and the Boston Modern Orchestra Project. A graduate of UC Berkeley with a Master’s in Performance from the New England Conservatory of Music, Ms. Liu is the recipient of the Eisner Prize, the Hertz Travelling Fellowship, and was 2008 Artist-in-Residence at the Blue Sky Project. Visit her at www.shawpong.com.