Happy New Year!

The truck is hibernating for the winter, and Nick and I are busy gearing up for our biggest adventure yet… more on that coming soon. On this evening before we embark on a new decade, I wanted to take a look back on our fall season. I’m grateful to have had the opportunity to deepen our relationship with and impact in Baltimore and to share our work with our OG supporters in South Carolina.

Thanks for being a part of our journey this year. I hope you have an amazing NYE, party just hard enough, and are showered with kisses by someone you love at midnight. Here’s to 2020!

Hugs, Susan

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In September, we returned to the Charm City Night Market, an epic one-night celebration of Baltimore’s pan-Asian community. This CCNM was especially exciting because Nick and I performed the first thing I’ve ever written for the two of us: a four-hand transcription of Saint-Saens’ Dance Macabre (It was stuck in my head after performing one-fifth of Greg Anderson’s five-piano version at the Southeastern Piano Festival.) I’m always floored by the enthusiasm of the crowd at CCNM, and our audience this year certainly didn’t disappoint. Thanks to Steph Hsu, Shawn Gunaratne, and The Chinatown Collective for having us back at this awesome event.

*Charm City Night Market; Baltimore, MD*

We also returned to the International Edgar Allan Poe Festival this year for an afternoon performance. (Dance Macabre was particularly appropriate for this program.) WJZ 13 | CBS Baltimore covered the performance and did a short interview with us, posted below. Thanks to Enrica Jang for inviting us back and to WJZ for this story!

The next day, we performed at the Dickeyville Fall Arts Festival. Dickeyville happens to be a very musically talented neighborhood, and we were privileged to collaborate with BSO principal oboist Katherine Needleman, composer and Peabody professor Joel Puckett, jazz saxophonist John Dierker, and the Dickeyville Community Choir, led by Anthony Blake Clark. Playing with Katherine Needleman was an honor, and I’m so grateful she introduced me to Clara Schumann’s Romances Op. 22 - always excited to discover beautiful music by female composers. Thanks to Bruce and Leslie Greenwald for sponsoring our performance!

A few days after that, we headed down south to Hilton Head, SC to perform as a part of The Performing Arts Consortium’s ten-year anniversary. TPAC was instrumental in getting us started, giving us one of our first donations and serving as our original fiscal sponsor. We were so thankful to be able to celebrate with them and to get to know the Hilton Head community. Special thanks to Cynthia and George Gorski-Popiel for hosting us, and to Cynthia, Mario Incorvaia, and Michelle Audet for putting this tour together!

Our last engagement for the season was a residency at Brilliant Baltimore: Light City, a festival of jaw-dropping light installations made by artists from all over the world in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor. We performed a marathon of ten consecutive nights (!), and it was COLD. My staple red dress was perhaps not the ideal uniform, given that our heater could do little save my bare shoulders from the wind. Despite the weather, we had a blast being a part of this amazing event and made a few friends along the way. Peep one of my favorite installations, Human Tiles by Ocubo, below. Many thanks to the Baltimore Office of Promotion & the Arts for inviting us!

*Light City, Aquarium Drive; Baltimore, MD*

Fall 2019 in Review

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