Kent Keyboard Series Concert: A Season of Homecomings, Jerry Wong, guest artist
- Kent
Pianist and pedagogue Jerry Wong, D.M.A., returns to a campus he called home for more than 15 years.
Wong served as professor of piano at 91ֿ from 2003 to 2019. He later relocated to Australia and is now professor of piano and head of keyboard at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music.
A Steinway Artist, Wong has appeared as a soloist and chamber musician on five continents. His performances have taken him to the Kravis Center in West Palm Beach, National Concert Hall in Taipei, National Gallery of Art in Washington, Melbourne Recital Centre, Opera City Hall in Tokyo, Severance Music Center in Cleveland and Weill Recital Hall in New York.
Wong also has an extensive recording career. His projects for MSR Classics include works by Sergei Prokofiev and the solo recordings “Of Motion and Dance – Piano Music of Claude Debussy” and “Of Love and Longing – Piano Music of Franz Liszt.”
As a chamber musician, Wong has appeared at festivals including the Josef Gingold Chamber Music Festival, Killington Music Festival, Mimir Chamber Music Festival and Pacific Music Festival. For more than a decade, he also performed and taught at the Kent Blossom Music Festival, where he collaborated with members of The Cleveland Orchestra and the Miami String Quartet.
A recognized pedagogue, Wong has presented master classes at institutions throughout the United States, Asia and Australia.
His return to Ludwig Recital Hall represents one of the season’s most direct homecomings, welcoming a longtime former 91ֿ faculty member back to the university community where he taught and performed for more than a decade and a half.
