WAITIKI’s “Prof. Humming Flower”: Randy Wong (upright & electric bass, co-founder)
Randy Wong is bassist, composer, co-founder, and director of WAITIKI. A classical double bassist and educational researcher by training, Randy studied at New England Conservatory (Boston, MA) and Harvard University. He is also bassist for Project Copernicus, a 12 member classical chamber orchestra based in Miami, Florida.
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.
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.
Read Randy Wong’s blog, Exoticology 101 with WAITIKI’s Prof. Humming Flower
Photo by Jason Goodman at Ryles Jazz Club (Cambridge, MA)
