Matt Wong

Piano & Keyboards • Composer & Arranger

San Francisco, CA

Upcoming Shows

6/9/17 - 7/1/17

The Soiled Dove

Tortuna Big Top

Alameda CA

1/3/17

Jazz Mafia

Black Cat Club - San Francisco, CA

The Hall - San Francisco, CA

12/31/16

Jazz Mafia Accomplices

NYE New Bohemia

The Mint - San Francisco, CA

10/1/16

Vau de Vire

Coney Island - Brooklyn, NY

8/27/16

Jazz Mafia

Black Cat Club - San Francisco, CA

7/31/16

Josh Jones Experience

Pier 23 - San Francisco, CA

7/27/16

Lewis Patzner Quartet

Cheeseboard Pizza Collective - Berkeley, CA

7/24/16

Silk N Soul 40th Anniversary Renunion

Ashkenaz - Berkeley, CA

7/15/16-7/17/16

Jazz Mafia

The Soiled Dove - Alameda, CA

7/2/16

Subharmonic

Yerba Buena Gardens Festival - San Francisco, CA

6/11/16

Dan Neville and the Golden Circle Sextet

Jazzchool - Berkeley, CA

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Original compositions performed:

Musical Art Quintet:

6/16/16 - Alma del Tango / San Anselmo, CA

7/3/16 - Fillmore Jazz Festival / San Francisco, CA

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Recent announcements:

2017 DownBeat Student Music Award:

Original Composition - Large Ensemble

View the DownBeat Student Awards issue here.

2017 ASCAP Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composers Award

Read the announcement here.

2016 ASCAP Foundation 21st Annual Awards

Recipient - Fran Morgenstern Davis Scholarship Award

Read the announcement here.

2016 Recently featured in Mixonline - view the press release here.

2016 DownBeat Student Music Awards:

Original Composition - Small Ensemble

Blues/Pop/Rock Soloist

View the DownBeat Student Awards issue here.

2015 ASCAP Foundation 20th Annual Awards

Recipient - Fran Morgenstern Davis Scholarship Award

Read the announcement here.

2015 Gerald Wilson Award, awarded by the Monterey Jazz Festival

More info here.

2015 DownBeat Student Music Awards:

Jazz Instrumental Soloist

Original Composition - Small Ensemble

Original Composition - Large Ensemble

Jazz Arrangement

View the DownBeat Student Awards issue here.

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SF Weekly 2015 Music Issue /Featured Profile

Read the profile here.

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2015 Essentially Ellington Competition & Festival

Student Composition/Arranging Contest - Winner

Presented by Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition & Festival, Jazz at Lincoln Center NYC - May 7-9, 2015

Click here for more info.

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2015 Herb Pomeroy Jazz Composition Contest - winner

Presented by the Berklee College of Music

Composition "Against the Current" performed by the Berklee Rainbow Band at the Berklee High School Jazz Festival in Boston, MA on January 31, 2015.

Click here for more info.

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Available now:

¡Intenso!

The album by the Clare Fischer Latin Jazz Big Band, produced by Brent Fischer.

Click here for more info.

Out of the Blue

The album by Clare Fischer, produced by Brent Fischer.

Click here for more info

Pacific Jazz

The album by the Clare Fischer Big Band, directed by Brent Fischer.

Click here for more info

Herbst Theatre, San Francisco, CA

photo credit: Scott Chernis