Jane Wang is a composer

Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

, music improvisor, and plays the double bass

Double bass

The double bass, also called the string bass, upright bass, standup bass or contrabass, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra, with strings usually tuned to E1, A1, D2 and G2...

, toy piano

Toy piano

The toy piano, also known as the kinderklavier , is a small piano-like musical instrument. The present form of the toy piano was invented in Philadelphia by a 17-year-old German immigrant named Albert Schoenhut. He worked as a repairman at Wanamaker's department store, repairing broken glass...

, piano

Piano

The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...

, cello

Cello

The cello is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is a member of the violin family of musical instruments, which also includes the violin, viola, and double bass. Old forms of the instrument in the Baroque era are baryton and viol .A person who plays a cello is...

, and various other musical instruments. She is also an installation artist, performance artist, pedestrian movement artist and a member of the Mobius Artists Group

Mobius Artists Group

The Mobius Artists Group is an interdisciplinary group of artists, founded in 1977 by Marilyn Arsem in Boston, Massachusetts as Mobius Theater. It is known for incorporating a wide range of visual, performing and media arts into live performance, video, installation and intermedia works...

. Born in Oxford

Oxford

The city of Oxford is the county town of Oxfordshire, England. The city, made prominent by its medieval university, has a population of just under 165,000, with 153,900 living within the district boundary. It lies about 50 miles north-west of London. The rivers Cherwell and Thames run through...

, England

England

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 she now resides in Watertown, Massachusetts

Watertown, Massachusetts

The Town of Watertown is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 31,915 at the 2010 census.- History :Archeological evidence suggests that Watertown was inhabited for thousands of years before the arrival of settlers from England...

. She participated in the ~chromatik d zabu.tmp vs. Vox Novus

Vox Novus

Vox Novus is an organization promoting contemporary composers. Founded by Robert Voisey in 2000 This organization was created for the purposes of expanding the presence of contemporary music in the public's vision, empowering composers and contemporary musicians to create, produce, and promote...

 project and is a member of CDZ. She has also been selected for the 60x60

60x60

60x60 is a collection of 60 electroacoustic or acousmatic works from 60 different composers/artists, each work 60 seconds or less in duration. 60x60 project showcases sixty new works, each sixty seconds or less, by sixty composers in a continuous sixty minute concert, for a one-hour cross-section...

 project. Jane Wang composed and performed music for Hanne Tierney’s How Wang-Fo Was Saved and Ms. Tierney’s Man, the Flower of All Flesh The design team, including Jane Wang, were nominated for the 2005 Henry Hewes Design Award. Jane Wang composed and performed solo bass pieces for Hanne Tierney. Performances have been presented at the Wanas Exhibition in Sweden, the International Festival of Puppet Theatre, BAM Next Wave Festival, the Sculpture Center and five myles in New York City

New York City

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, the Beograd International Theatre Festival in Yugoslavia, and Ms. Tierney’s Obie

Obie Award

The Obie Awards or Off-Broadway Theater Awards are annual awards given by The Village Voice newspaper to theatre artists and groups in New York City...

-award winning Salome (with Sabir Mateen

Sabir Mateen

Sabir Mateen is a musician and composer from Philadelphia who plays primarily in the avant-garde jazz idiom. He plays tenor and alto saxophone, B♭ and alto clarinet, and flute....

) at five myles and the International Festival of Puppet Theatre. Ms. Wang also composed the music for Danny Swain's, 3000 Miles to Blue

Articles and Reviews

• Feats of abandon and ambiguity By Karen Campbell, Globe Correspondent, April 8, 2008 Boston Globe
• Art in Review; 'Man, the Flower of All Flesh' by HOLLAND COTTER
  Holland Cotter
  Holland Cotter is an art critic with the New York Times. In 2009, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism.Cotter was born in Connecticut and grew up in Boston, Massachusetts. He earned his A.B. from Harvard College in 1970, where he studied English literature under poet Robert Lowell and was an...
  
   Published: May 6, 2005, New York Times
• Hanne Tierney's String Theory By Alexis Sottile Published: October 30th 2001, The Village Voice
  The Village Voice
  The Village Voice is a free weekly newspaper and news and features website in New York City that features investigative articles, analysis of current affairs and culture, arts and music coverage, and events listings for New York City...
  
  

Discography

• "And Then You Heard Tales" - Ryo Hashizume - Hao Records 428 - 1997
• "In A Stranger’s Hand" - Ryo Hashizume - Hao Records 429 - 1998
• "Somewhere In The Universe" - Takeshi Asai - Hao Records 430 - 1999
• "Invisible" - Osamu Moriyama - Hao Records 431 - 2000
• "The Sabir Mateen Quartet: Other Places Other Spaces" - 2008 Nu Bop Records CD 05
• "Numero Uno" - 60x60 (2006-2007) - Vox Novus
  Vox Novus
  Vox Novus is an organization promoting contemporary composers. Founded by Robert Voisey in 2000 This organization was created for the purposes of expanding the presence of contemporary music in the public's vision, empowering composers and contemporary musicians to create, produce, and promote...
  
  
• "Vol XXIV - From The Outskirts of The Milky Way" - 2007 CDZ
• "Vol XXII - Funky Industrial Cartoons" - 2006 CDZ
• "Vol XVIII - The New Voice of Chromatic Disgruntlement" - 2006 CDZ and Vox Novus
  Vox Novus
  Vox Novus is an organization promoting contemporary composers. Founded by Robert Voisey in 2000 This organization was created for the purposes of expanding the presence of contemporary music in the public's vision, empowering composers and contemporary musicians to create, produce, and promote...
  
  
• "First Time Out - Waterfront Park String Band" - 2004
• "More Than A Dream - Soul Station Live in Baltimore" - 2004
• "Legend of the Sea" - SOLARIS - Luna Records - 2003
• "Bethlehem COUNTERPOINT" - Aardvark Jazz Orchestra - 2002 - Aardmuse Recordings CD102
• "Sabir Mateen: Secrets of When" - Bleu Regard CT 1961 - 2001
• "Twoubadou Sek" - Gifrants - Gaeta Records (toll free: 1.866.559.004) - 2001
• "Invention Box" - Binary System - Atavistic ALP127CD - 2001
• "Vattel Cherry’s bassrespänse" 2001 - Owlsong Records - OWL2001-
• "The Already and The Not Yet" - James Falzone - 2000
• "Live on Boston Radio WGBH: Eric In the Evening" - Who She Be - promo CD - 1999
• "Slow Dance At The Asylum" - Molly Flannery Quintet - 1999
• "Serenade by Gifrants" - Gifrants - Gaeta Records 3323 - 1996
• "Laundry for the Nineties" - The Lydian People’s Front - Lydian1 - 1996

External links

• Jane Wang Hao Records