Randy Wong
Randy Wong is bassist and bandleader of The WAITIKI 7 and is CEO and Education Director of WAITIKI International. A double bassist and educational researcher by training, Randy studied with Todd Seeber, Cecil McBee, Michael Cain, and Larry Scripp at New England Conservatory and Steve Seidel, Jessica Hoffman Davis, and Howard Gardner at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education.
Randy’s arrangements of hapa-haole and exotica tunes (once made famous by Arthur Lyman, Alfred Apaka, and Martin Denny) appear on both WAITIKI albums and “Paradise Lost & Found,” a compilation released in late 2007 by Flea Market Music. His composition “L’ours Chinois,” a Fritz Kreisler-esque violin showpiece that draws influences from Maurice Ravel and classic exotica of the late 1950s was commissioned for Project Copernicus, and were noted by critics as “immediately engaging”. The Palm Beach Post’s Greg Stepanich later named Wong’s “L’ours Chinois” debut as #4 in his Top 10 Classical Music Events for 2007.
In high demand as a freelance double bassist, Randy has performed and/or toured a diverse selection of today’s finest musicians, including: Susan Werner, Brother Ah (Robert Northern), the Honolulu Symphony, Project Copernicus, Zaccai Curtis, Michael Connors, and Waipuna, among others.
As an arts educator and educational researcher, Randy Wong is Associate Editor of the Journal for Music-In-Education, published jointly by New England Conservatory and the Music-In-Education National Consortium.
Mr. Wong is currently on the Faculty of New England Conservatory’s School for Continuing Education, the Hawaii International Contrabass Festival, and the Hawaii Youth Symphony’s Pacific Music Institute.
External Links
Read Randy Wong’s blog, Exoticology 101 with WAITIKI’s Prof. Humming Flower.
Visit randywong.net
