Rate My Professor Jerry Wong

A Steinway Artist, Wong has performed extensively throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia at venues such as the Kravis Center in West Palm Beach, National Concert Hall of Taipei, National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., Opera City Hall in Tokyo, PianoForte in Chicago, Severance Hall in Cleveland, Shriver Hall in Baltimore, and Weill Recital Hall in New York City. His performances and interviews have been broadcast on Finnish National Radio, Nippon Television, WCLV in Cleveland, and David Dubal’s Reflections from the Keyboard on WQXR. Wong has released three solo recordings on the MSR Classics label: works by Sergei Prokofiev, Of Motion and Dance – Piano Music of Claude Debussy (2018), and Of Love and Longing – Piano Music of Franz Liszt. He has also recorded chamber music with clarinettist Dennis Nygren on Albany Records, flutist Derek Jones on MOVE Records, and soprano Melissa Davis on two discs of song cycles by Jake Heggie. An active chamber musician, he has appeared at festivals including the Josef Gingold Chamber Music Festival, Killington Music Festival, Mimir Chamber Music Festival, and Pacific Music Festival. Wong is a recognized pedagogue, presenting masterclasses at institutions such as Cleveland Institute of Music, Indiana University, Northwestern University, and University of Michigan, as well as in Australia, Chile, China, Hong Kong, Italy, Korea, New Zealand, Russia, Singapore, and Taiwan. He has delivered lecture recitals for the Music Teachers National Association, National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy, Frances Clark Pedagogy Center, and World Piano Teachers Association. As International Column Editor for The Piano Magazine (formerly Clavier Companion), he contributes regularly to keyboard pedagogy literature. His scholarly works include analyses such as Francis Poulenc's Early Writing: A Critical Analysis of Trois Pieces (1918) and Mouvements Perpetuels (1919), and George Rochberg's Nach Bach and Four Short Sonatas.