Music Director
Mun-Tzung Wong, Music Director
Recognized for her artistry and musical versatility, Mun-Tzung Wong leads a professional career as a pianist, conductor, mezzo-soprano, vocal and instrumental coach, and pedagogue. Ms. Wong is currently the Music Director of the Riverdale Choral Society in New York City and Music Director and Choirmaster at St. John’s Anglican Church in Passaic. Recently, she was the guest conductor of Donizetti’s Anna Bolena with Dell’arte Opera Ensemble. She has served as assistant conductor at the International Vocal Arts Institute, St. Petersburg Opera Company, New Rochelle Opera, Regina Opera, Norwalk Symphony Orchestra, Missouri Symphony Orchestra, Macau Youth Symphony, and Orchestra dell’Opera di Parma. Mun-Tzung has seamlessly combined her roles as a conductor and pianist. She has appeared as a pianist on WQXR and performed at venues such as Carnegie Hall, Symphony Space, Alice Tully Hall, Steinway Hall, and Lincoln Center. As a mezzo-soprano, she has appeared as a soloist in performances of the Mozart Requiem and Mass in C minor, Vivaldi Gloria, Bach Magnificat, and Duruflé Requiem, Bach St John Passion, and Händel’s Messiah. She recently debuted as Zweite Dame in Die Zauberflöte at Opera America and as Eboli in Verdi’s Don Carlo in Philadelphia. Featured in an article on music entrepreneurship in Forbes Magazine,
Ms. Wong is the founding executive director of the New York Conducting Institute. She maintains a private instrumental and vocal coaching studio in New York City. She has been on staff at the Manhattan School of Music since 2008. As a guest collaboration artist at The Juilliard School and Mannes School of Music, she also serves as an adjunct faculty at Columbia University. Ms. Wong received a Bachelor of Arts in Piano Performance from The Chinese University of Hong Kong and earned diplomas from the Royal School of Music and Trinity College, London. She obtained two advanced degrees in Piano Performance from the renowned Manhattan School of Music and has participated in myriad masterclasses and workshops, studying under luminaries such as Nicholas Mann, André-Michel Schub, David Krakauer, Larry Rachleff, Donald Schleicher, and Paul Nadler.