Recent Performances
Odyssey Theater in Santa Monica
January 2026: Performance duet “Blue” with Kevin Wiliamson, dancer performing piano music by Ryuichi Sakamoto
https://www.ladancechronicle.com/kevin-williamsons-blue-filled-with-humor-and-thought-provoking-moments/
Webinar, “Creating Space for Asian American History through Art” for APIA Planning x Arts
November 2025: American Planning Association
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/creating-space-for-asian-american-history-through-art-tickets-1802335025579 and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzEpd23W5AY&t=2934s
Balch Auditorium, Scripps Presents “Conversation with Naja Lockwood,” director of Healing Land, Birds Perch
October 2025: Interlocutor and performance of “Diễm Xưa” by Trịnh Công Sơn for film screening
https://www.scrippscollege.edu/events/calendar/naja-lockwood-in-conversation
Applied Mathematics Intersections conference at Pomona College
October 2025: presenter performer of Ravel “Ma Mère l’Oye”, AMI
Paul Octave Wiéhé Auditorium University of Mauritius (UoM), MU
April 2025: Visiting Lecturer in Music, Centre for Research on Slavery and Indentured (CRSI) and the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities (FSSH)
“Dr. Lionel Edirisinghe Rostrum” Auditorium, University of the Visual and Performing Arts, Colombo, Sri Lanka
February 2025: Lecture recital and piano masterclass for Department of Western Music
Garrison Theater, Holmes Performing Arts Fund Presents at Scripps College
February 2025 host and producer, “Turtle Island/Abya Yala indigenous lands”
https://claremont-courier.com/latest-news/scripps-show-focuses-on-indigenous-history-81893/
https://www.dailybulletin.com/2025/02/15/claremonts-scripps-college-to-present-turtle-island-abya-yala-indigenous-lands/
Balch Auditorium, Scripps Presents (in collaboration with Michael Alden, producer of films, Broadway and Off-Broadway theatre productions and Harvard PhD Creative Studies and Critical Inquiry program composer and music director Micah Huang)
December 5, 2024: immersive experience event, “Recalling Spirits”
https://www.givecampus.com/schools/ScrippsCollege/events/live-performances-recalling-spirits/guest_list
https://claremont-courier.com/more-local-news/recalling-spirits-debuts-december-5-80805/
February 2024: Mei Duo Faculty Recital, “Manifold Muses: French and Spanish Music & Poetry, guest poetry reciter Javier Ramirez, 2024 O’Brien Distinguished Visiting Professor
Podcast release on Captivate.fm, available on iTunes / Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Amazon Music, Overcast, RSS Feed
July 2023: “Iron Horse Road: a Tale from Gold Mountain”
https://blood-on-gold-mountain.captivate.fm/episodes/3#showEpisodes
USC Pacific Asia Museum of Pasadena
October 2022, NEA grant award performance event, American Dreams/Asian Nightmares
Garrison Theater, Scripps Performing Arts Center
October 2022, NEA grant award performance event, American Dreams/Asian Nightmares
El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument
October 2021, UCLA Chancellor‟s Arts Initiative award performance event, Chinatown Elegy
Scripps College Bowling Green Lawn
October 2021, Holmes Performing Arts Fund grant performance event, Chinatown Elegy
Guest faculty, University of Belize, BLZ
January 2020, Mei Duo performances and masterclasses
Pico House Atrium (inside the oldest standing building in downtown Los Angeles)
October 2019, multimedia event co-sponsored by the Kellogg Foundation Truth, Racial Healing &
Transformation program and the Chinese American Museum of LA, Remembering the 1871 LA
Chinatown Massacre
Commune di Pisciotta, Cilento Coast (Italy), Citta di Siracusa (Sicily)
July 2018, Mei Duo chamber music performance
Guest faculty, Ningxia University, Yinchuan; Baotou Teacher’s College, Mongolia; Xiamen
University PRC
June-July 2017, Chamber Music Recitals, 20th/21st century American art music and masterclasses
Guest faculty, University of Otago, Dunedin; Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand
April 2017, Mei Duo Recitals USA Chamber Music, lectures and masterclasses
Guest faculty, South African College of Music, University of Cape Town, South Africa
March 2017, Solo piano recital, “Popular Music influences on American Classical Music”, masterclass and
lecture
Guest faculty, Ningxia University, Yinchuan; University of Inner Mongolia, Baotou; Xiamen
University, PRC
June 2016, Mei Duo Recital “The Romantics” and lectures
Guest faculty, University of Crete; University of Makedonia; Greek Society of Music Educators;
Ionian University, Crete and Greece
May 2016, Mei Duo Recitals, USA music for piano and violin and lectures
Yale-NUS College, Singapore
March 17, 2015 Solo Recital of American Piano Music, interview with the artist
Yong Siew Toh Music Conservatory, Singapore
March 18, 2015 Solo piano recital, “Enter the Romantics”
Guest faculty, IITGN Gandhinagar, Ahmedabad India
January 8, 2015 Mei Duo Concert of American Music
January 13, 2015 A Survey of Jazz through Blues
Veritas University, San Jose, Costa Rica
October 21, 2014 Mei Duo concert of Piano and Violin Music from the USA
Guest artist professor, Universidad de las Américas Puebla, UDLAP MX
April 7, 2014 Chamber Music of the Americas, North and South (with guest artist Juan
Hermida, cellist)
Guest artist piano performance, 20th Anniversary of Hungarian Fulbright Commission by
invitation of American Embassy, Budapest, Hungary
May 11, 2012 Piano solo performance of Gershwin and Liszt
El Teatro Principal, Puebla, MX
March 17, 2012 Mei Duo concert featuring Music by American Composers
Domestic performances include appearances in
- Ukraine benefit event of poetry and music, Lyman Hall, Pomona College
- LANSUM International Music Festival, Zipper Hall, the Colburn School of Music, LA
- LANSUM International Festival, Grace T. Black Auditorium, El Monte
- LANSUM International Music Festival, Broad Center Performance Space, Pitzer College
- Scripps Faculty Recital, Garrison Theater, Scripps College Performing Arts Center
- Barnard College, Philosophy Hall, Department of Music at Columbia University
- Concert Hall, Mannes College of Music, The New School
- Friday Noon Concert Series, Balch Auditorium, Scripps College
- Shinkoskey Noon Concert Series, Mondavi Center, UC Davis
- EVC Auditorium, Davis CA
- HAIYAN/YOLANDA Benefit Concert, raised over $3250.00 to donate to Gawad Kalinga, Philipino
recovery program, Garrison Theater - Family Weekend Concert, Garrison Theater
- Marina Miner Cook Athenaeum, Claremont McKenna College
Presentations
2022 Panelist for Diversity Summit “Sundown Towns” by invitation, American Planning
Association California conference, Disney Marriot Anaheim
2020 Public lecture, “Why Learn Music?” George Price Center, University of Belize
2019 Invited to deliver paper at the Twentieth International Conference on Diversity in
Organizations, Communities & Nations at University of Milan IT 2020
2018 Featured presentation at the 20th International Conference on Refugees and Human
Rights in San Francisco — “Assessing How Liberal Arts Colleges Can Teach
Undergraduate Students about Key Issues in Migration, Immigration, and Human Rights”
2018 Guest lecturer, “Jazzlines: Music, Poetry and the visual arts”; “Examining the Black
American Dream”; Poetry and Paintings of the Harlem Renaissance”, University of Essex, UK
2017 Public lectures, “The Soul of Blues: Jazz through Rock „n‟ Roll”; “The Musical Art of Billie
Holiday”, University of Otago, Dunedin / Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand
2017 Public lecture, “American Piano Music from Gottschalk through Ives”, South African
College of Music, University of Cape Town, SA
2016 Pubic lectures, “Jazz Poetry and Music”; “Survey of USA Piano Music: Heinrich, Beach,
MacDowell, Gershwin, Copland, Barber Bernstein”, University of Crete / University of
Makedonia / Greek Society of Music Educators / Ionian University, Greece
2016 Public Lecture presentations, “Jazz Beginnings: New Orleans and Beyond” and
“Survey of American Art Music”, University of Coimbra, Portugal
2015 Lecture, “Popular Influences in American Art Music”, Yale-NUS, Singapore
2015 Public Lecture presentations, “The Black American Dream: Memories of the Harlem
Renaissance” and “Jazzlines: Blues Poetry by Langston Hughes and Sterling Brown”,
University of São Paulo, Brazil
Media appearances:
2022 Interviewed in The China History podcast Episode. 297, “Austro-German Jewish
Musicians in Wartime Shanghai” https://podcasts.apple.com/co/podcast/ep-297-austro-german-jewish-musicians-in-wartime-shanghai/id489369498?i=1000556119228
2021 lecture, Indian Women Making History in Mauritius,” Indo-Caribbean Cultural Centre (ICC)
& Ameena Gafoor Institute (AGI), Trinidad & Tobago
https://www.facebook.com/indocaribbeanculturalcentre/videos/indian-women-making-history-in- mauritius/848543619379722/
2021 lecture, “Roots of Anti-Asian American Violence: The Past as Present,” with Kim Tran, and
Professor Jang Wook Huh at University of Washington, Harvard Club of Seattle
https://hcseattle.clubs.harvard.edu/article.html?aid=552
2021 lecture, “Roots of Anti-Asian American Violence,” with Dr. Jason Koh, Faculty at
University of Chicago, Harvard Club of Chicago
https://m.facebook.com/harvardclubchicago/photos/a.101297455407896/116779417193033/?type=3&_rdr
2021 broadcast — Podcast Interview: Jan 8th, 2021 on “In Tune,” a podcast about music and
mental health Hamwe Festival of University of Global Health Equity, Rwanda
https://intunepodcast.captivate.fm/episode/what-is-music
2021 Guest distinguished panelist, Berklee College of Music American Roots Music Program: “Billie
Holiday Birthday Symposium”
https://college.berklee.edu/focused/roots/events/billie-holiday-birthday-symposium
2021 Beethoven Piano Sonata 0p. 109 feature page posted on Serenade, the premier classical
music site in India
https://serenademagazine.com/series/opinion/beethoven-in-2021-why-his-music-continues-to-matter-during-the-covid-19-pandemic/
2021 Featured speaker in Academic Minute, “Tradition and Environmentalism in Bali: An
Interdisciplinary Perspective,” https://academicminute.org/2021/02/hao-huang-scripps-college-tradition-and-environmentalism-in-bali-an-interdisciplinary-perspective/
The Academic Minute and Inside Higher Ed
https://www.insidehighered.com/audio/2021/02/01/tradition-and-environmentalism-bali
2020 Produced Claremont Colleges Webinar: “How the Covid 19 Anti-Asian politics is impacting
the fall elections” on Wednesday October 21, 4 pm PST
Webinar Link: https://pomonacollege.zoom.us/j/86090629097
* US Congressional Representative Judy Chu of the 27th District of California, Keynote Speaker;
Professors Janelle Wong of the University of Maryland and Thomas Kim of Scripps College as
speaker and moderator respectively
2014 PBS documentary, “Healed: Music, Medicine and Life with MS”
http://www.healedthefilm.com/ *This film has been now been broadcast over 500 times by nearly
200 PBS-TV stations
