Latitudes 22

Strings abound in the 22nd installment of Latitudes! New Haven’s Austin Larkin returns to the series to transmogrify his violin into a tool to amplify the poetics of space. Following a stunning performance at Other Minds Festival 26 in 2022, Theresa Wong makes her debut appearance at Latitudes to delight us with her cello and voice improvisations.

This concert took place on September 12, 2024 at the Center for New Music in San Francisco.

Austin Larkin is a composer and violinist focusing on elements of tone within the interstices of fields, asymmetries, and patterns. His performance and practice is informed by research into dimensions of vibrating bodies. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut.

Theresa Wong is a composer, cellist, and vocalist active at the intersection of improvisation, composition, and the synergy of multiple disciplines. A 2024 Guggenheim Fellow in music composition, her works include Fluency of Trees for solo cello and voice which premiered at the Other Minds Festival in 2022, She Dances Naked Under Palm Trees, commissioned by pianist Sarah Cahill for The Future is Female project, and Harbors, co-composed with Long String Instrument inventor Ellen Fullman and chosen as one of The Wire’s top 50 releases of 2020. Recent commissions include works for San Francisco Girls Chorus, Peninsula Women’s Chorus, NakedEye Ensemble, Long Beach Opera, Del Sol Quartet, and Splinter Reeds. She has shared her work internationally at venues including Fondation Cartier in Paris, Cafe Oto and Barbican Centre in London, San Francisco Asian Art Museum, Museo d’Arte Orientale in Torino, Sydney Festival, and The Stone in New York City.