Angel Wong

Born and raised in Hong Kong, Angel Wong is a vocalist, composer and multi-instrumentalist whose music is characterised by original indie neo-soul songs, reimaginations of fringe jazz standards, and an open-minded approach to improvising derived from a love of contemporary and free music. Currently, Angel is a master’s student in jazz performance at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, but her undergraduate days were spent studying musicology and cultural history at the University of Cambridge while being on a choral scholarship at Christ's College. As a result, she keenly embraces a variety of musical idioms as both a scholar and a practitioner (performing, writing, producing), spanning all the way from Western Art Music and Chinese folk music to 90s Gospel Music and the electronic sound worlds of Trance, Future Bass and Alternative Pop. Besides her recent debut at the EFG London Jazz Festival, Angel has performed globally in venues such as the Vienna Musikverein, Monks Jazz Club (Austin, Texas), The Vortex Jazz Club, Jazz Cafe Posk, The Jago, The Morocco Bound (London), Hong Kong Disneyland, Chez Trente and Cheek to Cheek (Hong Kong). Similarly, she has had the pleasure of collaborating and performing with a roster of Grammy Award winners, nominees and other iconic trailblazers in the modern-day jazz scene, including Bill Laurance, Billy Childs, Zara McFarlane, Mark Kavuma, Tom Green, Callum Au, Darmon Meader, Trish Clowes, Gareth Lockrane, Ola Onabule, and members of jazz supergroup MOSS (Peter Eldridge, Kate McGarry, Lauren Kinhan, Theo Bleckmann, and Jo Lawry). Regarding function gigs, Angel is a seasoned professional, having performed at various Cambridge winter and may balls, garden parties, graduation parties, dinner formals, day festivals and pub events. Experienced and dedicated, she is simultaneously happy to accompany herself whilst singing on the piano, guitar and/or bass guitar, as well as in a duo or ensemble setting due to her experience in jazz and collaborative playing.