I’m excited to collaborate with the incredible master musician and Balafon virtuoso Balla Kouyaté, originally from Mali. We’ll play traditional music, improvisations and original compositions with their instruments from Mali, China, and Europe. Join us for reflection, connection and joy!
Birdsong will fill Jordan Hall as conductorless chamber orchestra A Far Cry performs Arise, my birdsong-based composition along with a new premiere by Yaz Lancaster, and works by Britten and Purcell.
A ritual of women, created by women-identified artists led by choreographer Wendy Jehlen and Anikaya Dance Theatre. I composed and co-created some of the music for this meaningful dance and movement theatre performance.
Presented by Gibney Dance in NYC
I composed music and co-created sound for this production in collaboration with an amazing international ensemble of dancers and choreographer Wendy Jehlen.
The Women Gather is a centering of women’s experience with a conscious awareness of the glorious diversity of gender presentation within women. The Women Gather will be a performance by eight women from five countries, who create sound and movement together live, in an environment that they build, deconstruct, and recreate over the course of the performance. All sound is generated live by the ensemble. The Women Gather is a ritual of healing. A gathering of women. A safe space and a space for the conjuring of magic.
Playing improvised and original music on violin and erhu with my dear friend and incredible jazz pianist, Brian Friedland at this free and fun outdoor concert series. JP Licks will be on the scene too!
I’ll be performing a violin and erhu set for the Global Roots series at Club Passim, streaming online!
Performance and conversation by myself on violin and erhu with special guests, TBA!
I’m honored to be performing on the new online Latitude concert series, alongside 7 other artists I admire and respect greatly. Check out the lineup and subscribe at https://www.broadbandcollab.com/latitudes
I’m thrilled that the phenomenal musicians of Hub New Music will be premiering a new composition of mine, along with several other world premieres, as part of this Celebrity Series of Boston concert.
Soul Yatra Trio with myself on violin and erhu, Sandeep Das on tabla, and Mike Block on cello. Excited to be playing this online concert with these amazing friends IN THE SAME ROOM thanks to thoughtful planning by Celebrity Series with Futura Production Studios.
Live outdoor concert on Eliot School Lawn in Jamaica Plain! Limited to 25 guests.
Tickets are free (there’s a suggested donation to Eliot School or The Innocence Project) but you must reserve them in advance so we can keep social distancing. Reserve tickets here.
Solo violin and erhu concert from my home to yours, reflecting on the past six months of quarantine
https://www.celebrityseries.org/productions/shaw-pong-liu/
Join for a concert on the site of the future Community MusicWorks headquarters! This special event features the world premiere of a piece by composer Shaw Pong Liu for CMW students and the MusicWorks Collective, which reflects on interviews with neighborhood residents, . Help honor the past and look to the future as we celebrate with music and stories.
Hosted by Celebrity Series of Boston! Join me at: https://www.facebook.com/events/524249644928650/
Three master musicians and committed arts educators come together in a trio concert when Mike Block (cello), Sandeep Das (tabla) and Shaw Pong Liu (violin, erhu) appear as Soul Yatra trio.
Mike Block -- a pioneering cellist, composer, innovator, and educator -- was called “the ideal musician for the 21st century” by Yo-Yo Ma. Grammy-nominated virtuoso Sandeep Das, one of today’s leading tabla players, is a 2019 Guggenheim Fellow in the field of music composition. Composer and performer Shaw Pong Liu, the 2016 City of Boston Artist-in-Residence embedded with the Boston Police Department, engages diverse communities with music and social dialogue.
Tickets are $5, with proceeds to benefit Legacy Lives On, a non-profit organization that provides ongoing support, comfort, and healing for families that have lost a loved one to homicide.
Honoring loved ones lost to homicide and their families, this event is a performance/memorial/dialogue collaboration of composer Shaw Pong Liu, homicide survivors, Boston Arts Academy teen dancers, guest artists NEA National Heritage Fellow Balla Kouyaté on balafon, jazz trumpet master Jason Palmer, and the Code Listen ensemble including survivors, teen artists, and members of the Boston Police Department. Join us in the Courtyard and Calderwood Hall for a free performance and dialogue.
Admission is free but RSVP required, seating is extremely limited.
Schedule:
Courtyard Processional | 1 PM -1:30 PM
Calderwood Hall performance/memorial/dialogue | 2–3:30 PM
Excited to be joining the faculty again at Yo-Yo Ma’s music festival, Youth Music Culture Guangzhou in China.
Code Listen 3.0 reflects on the intertwining stories of Boston Police, teens, and mothers who have lost their children to homicide in a citywide series of musical-narrative performances and conversations during Homicide Survivor Awareness Month (Nov 20- Dec 20 2018).
Join us for a public-facing, free performance and dialogue featuring original music composition by lead artist Shaw Pong Liu; theatre direction by Pascale Florestal; live music performance by a collaborative ensemble of homicide survivors, Boston police, youth, and musicians Jason Palmer, jazz trumpet, Ashleigh Gordon, viola, and members of A Far Cry chamber orchestra; a public memorial of memorial posters for homicide victims; and community dialogue about violence, racism, and police practices.
In partnership with New England Foundation for the Arts, Celebrity Series of Boston, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Legacy Lives On, Teen Empowerment and A Far Cry.
Code Listen 3.0 uses music and stories to engage a citywide conversation on violence, racism, and police practices by creating public music-memorial-dialogue events during Homicide Survivor Awareness Month (Nov 20- Dec 20 2018). The performance will include an original music composition by lead artist Shaw Pong Liu; theatre direction by Pascale Florestal; live music performance by a collaborative ensemble of homicide survivors, Boston police, youth, and musicians Jason Palmer, jazz trumpet, Ashe Gordon, viola, and members of A Far Cry chamber orchestra; a public memorial of memorial posters for homicide victims; and community dialogue about violence, racism, and police practices.
In partnership with New England Foundation for the Arts, Celebrity Series of Boston, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Legacy Lives On, and Teen Empowerment.
I’ll be performing violin and erhu in a concert that includes my composition, “LullaBuy No Peace”, arranged for Silkroad.
I’ll be performing violin and erhu in this concert at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, including a new arrangement of my composition, “LullaBuy No Peace” for Silkroad.
Performance by five 2018-2019 Kennedy CenterCitizen Artist Fellows, including me!
By combining elements of spoken word verse, hip hop, dance, visual art & instrumentation, The Beat That Binds Us explores the connectivity of Americans by using the body as a metaphor, with emphasis on its health and vitality dependent on the syncopated rhythm of its heartbeat. Through creating content that explores social norms and behaviors, this performance will investigate the barriers that create disease or disharmony in an increasingly divisive nation, and will unpack what we can do to move forward together as a functioning, beating heart.
About the Performers: The Kennedy Center, a living memorial to President John F. Kennedy, honors our 35th President everyday by uplifting ideals from his legacy (service, justice, freedom, courage, and gratitude) that live through the arts. As part of this celebration of legacy, the Kennedy Center launched the "Citizen Artist Fellow Recognition" in 2016, which celebrates emerging artists across the country who utilize their art form for positive impact on communities. Through a year-long engagement with the Kennedy Center, Citizen Artist Fellows develop and strengthen connections in their fields, receive opportunities for artistic collaboration and presentation, and gain access to Kennedy Center Staff and Artistic Partners for individual professional development.
I will be teaching and performing with Yo-Yo Ma and the Silkroad Ensemble at the Chataqua Institute for a weeklong residency on the theme: The Arts and Global Understanding.
The third weekend in a year-long Silkroad residency at the Freer-Sackler (Asian Art museum of the Smithsonian Institute) includes the premiere of a new piece commissioned by the museum, with compositions by Silkroad musicians, including a piece by me, based on works of art in the museum.
Celebrity Series Neighborhood Arts presents duo concert with myself on violin and erhu and Sandeep Das on tabla.
https://www.celebrityseries.org/live-performances/performance-event-calendar/sandeep-das-shaw-pong-liu-jugalbandi-music-of-india-and-china/
April 5-8 at the Boston Center for the Arts
Based on the 12th century Persian Sufi literary masterwork by Attar, "The Conference of the Birds" is a newly commissioned evening-length movement theatre work exploring migration, journeys, and stories of migrants and refugees. Directed by choreographer Wendy Jehlen, an incredible ensemble of 8 dancers from 8 different countries (Brazil, Benin, Turkey, South Africa/India, Japan, Egypt, Indonesia, and the U.S.) express stories of migrants and refugees through the lens of the 12th century Persian literary masterpiece. Music composed by myself, Iranian master ney player Shaho Andalibi and French sound artist Fraction (Eric Reynaud).
Soul Yatra Trio explores music from China, India and the Americas with myself on violin and erhu, Mike Block, cello and voice, and Sandeep Das, tabla (Indian drums). Free concert sponsored by Celebrity Series' Neighborhood Arts program. All ages welcome!
Celebrity Series' sponsored violin and erhu performance at Boston Public Library in Hyde Park. All ages welcome!
Celebrity Series' sponsored violin and erhu performance at Boston Public Library in Dorchester (Adams St). All ages welcome!
Celebrity Series' sponsored violin and erhu performance at Boston Public Library in Mattapan. All ages welcome!
