about me
Tracy Wong is a pianist, educator, and arts administrator whose work bridges performance, entrepreneurship, and community engagement. As Assistant Director of the Center for Innovation and Community Impact (CICI) at the Colburn School in Los Angeles, she leads initiatives in career development, entrepreneurship, and artist citizenship through both institutional programming and undergraduate/graduate coursework. Tracy is completing the final performance requirement for her Doctor of Musical Arts in Piano Performance at the University of Southern California, where she studied with Antoinette Perry.
In addition to her musical training, Tracy holds a bachelor's degree in psychology with concentrations in business entrepreneurship, music education, arts leadership, and arts administration. Her work is guided by the belief that artistic excellence and professional sustainability are inseparable. Whether in the classroom, concert hall, or through institutional leadership, she seeks to equip artists with the curiosity, adaptability, and entrepreneurial mindset needed to build meaningful and impactful careers.
As a pianist, Tracy has appeared as a soloist with the Saint Petersburg State Symphony, the Louisville Symphony, and the Chicago Ars Viva Symphony, and has performed at venues including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and the Beloselsky-Belozersky Palace in St. Petersburg, Russia. She is a National YoungArts alumna and has received top honors in numerous national and international competitions, including the Cincinnati World Piano Competition, the Delta Symphony Orchestra Young Artist Competition, and the Hellam Young Artist Competition.
Prior to joining the Colburn School, Tracy worked with organizations including NPR's From the Top, the San Francisco Opera, the Cincinnati Arts Association, and the Pasadena Symphony and POPS. Drawing on experience across the performing arts ecosystem, she remains committed to helping musicians build careers that are artistically fulfilling, professionally sustainable, and deeply connected to the communities they serve.
Music cultivates empathy through diving into others' experiences in tandem with a deeper discovery of the self. It can cross cultural lines, underscore protests, and champion every-day stories. If we listen closely and feel deeply, there are echoes of the multifaceted human existence in music written both hundreds of years ago and right now. It is my belief that it is a choice to place notation within a context that is uniquely meaningful, that might have a. place in impacting the world of today rather than recreating the world of yesterday.
These are my guiding forces as I seek to communicate as an artist, mentor, and entrepreneur. Thank you for your support, for listening, and I hope to play a role in allowing music to be a part of your life as well.
with sincerity and always yours,
