Matt Wong
Piano & Keyboards • Composer & Arranger
New York, NY • San Francisco, CA
SFJAZZ Center, San Francisco, CA
photo credit: Scott Chernis
SFJAZZ Center, San Francisco, CA
photo credit: Chuck Gee
Upcoming Shows
1/19/18
Oakland Symphony
W. Kamau Bell's Playlist
Paramount Theatre
Oakland CA
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2017
12/30/17
Jazz Mafia
Brick & Mortar Music Hall
San Francisco CA
12/19/17
Jazz Mafia Presents East Bay Live
A Tribe Called Quest - Live Mixtape
featuring Duece Eclipse and Seneca
Uptown Nightclub
Oakland CA
12/16/17
Narada Michael Walden Foundation
21st Annual Holiday Jam
Throckmorton Theatre
Mill Valley CA
10/30/17
MSM Jazz Orchestra featuring Stefon Harris
Dizzy's Club / JALC
New York NY
9/15 - 17/17
Monterey Jazz Festival
Monterey CA
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
Original compositions & arrangements performed by:
12/11/17 - SFJAZZ Monday Night Band / San Francisco CA
8/18/17 - Realistic Orchestra - Undercover Presents Nina Simone / San Francisco CA
6/16/16 - Musical Art Quintet - Alma del Tango / San Anselmo, CA
7/3/16 - Musical Art Quintet - Fillmore Jazz Festival / San Francisco, CA
Announcements & Press:
2018 DownBeat Student Music Award:
Outstanding Composition
View the DownBeat Student Awards issue here.
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 Feature 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
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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.
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Available now:
¡Intenso!
The album by the Clare Fischer Latin Jazz Big Band, produced by Brent Fischer.
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Out of the Blue
The album by Clare Fischer, produced by Brent Fischer.
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Pacific Jazz
The album by the Clare Fischer Big Band, directed by Brent Fischer.
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Herbst Theatre, San Francisco, CA
photo credit: Scott Chernis