Vienna Teng and Alex Wong with Matt Moberg
Singer/pianist Vienna Teng and percussionist/guitarist/keyboardist Alex Wong have crafted a sound that the Associated Press calls “ambitious yet always tuneful…gorgeous and haunting.” Each has garnered attention in their own right: Vienna has appeared on Letterman, NPR and the CBS Early Show, and toured with artists such as Shawn Colvin, India.Arie, Duncan Sheik and the Indigo Girls. Alex has produced records for celebrated singer/songwriters Ari Hest and Amber Rubarth, as well as his own project The Paper Raincoat (recently a featured artist on iTunes), and won Best Original Score in the L.A. Weekly Theater Awards for his work on Everyman For Himself.
Vienna and Alex’s first studio collaboration, Inland Territory, was released in April 2009 to glowing reviews: “a brilliant, introspective diary of an album” (American Songwriter), “sheer effervescent beauty…demands repeated exploration” (Blurt Online). In live performance, using an array of instruments along with looping pedals and effects—but no pre-recorded tracks of any kind—the duo veers from intimate to epic and back again, showcasing their love for an ever-widening range of genres: folk, pop, classical, jazz, country, even atonal modern music.
Singer/songwriter Matt Moberg opens tonight.
Ticket options and info
- On sale date: now
- Phone: 612-338-2674 ext 2 ($1 fee per ticket)
- In person: From a Cedar volunteer in the front lobby before and after shows (no fee), Depth of Field (no fee), or Electric Fetus (small fee),
- Online: Ticketweb (fees apply) (click on red Buy Tickets button at top of this page)
- All Cedar shows are all ages. Students with ID may gain discounted admission for tickets purchased at the door
Vienna Teng / 史逸欣 (born Cynthia Yih Shih on October 3, 1978) is a Taiwanese American pianist and singer-songwriter based in New York City. She began studying classical piano at the age of 5. She took her stage name "Vienna" from the Austrian city...
Alex Wong has always relied on the belief that if you listen closely enough, the music will always tell you where to go.As a Brooklyn-based performer/songwriter/producer who has made music on 3 continents, he has taken that concept literally. During his far-...
As I fill out this "Biography" slot, I find myself caught in this awkward tension of whether I should go third person on y'all and be a fraud pretending to have "people" who fill this stuff out for me, or if I should just take the reins, do it, and run...
Major Funders
This activity is made possible in part by a grant provided by the Minnesota State Arts Board, through an appropriation by the Minnesota State Legislature from the Minnesota arts and cultural heritage fund with money from the vote of the people of Minnesota on November 4, 2008
