Betty Ann Wong

Betty Ann (Siu Junn) Wong (born September 6, 1938) is an American author, composer, and multi-media musician. She received the 1988 Hollywood Dramalogue Critics Award for Outstanding Achievement for Original Music Theater for her work on Eugene O’Neill’s Marco Millions. She has also composed film scores for Academy Award-winning movie producers Allie Light and Irving Saraf. Early life and training A native of San Francisco, Wong and her twin sister Shirley grew up speaking Cantonese at home as well as English. Wong began piano lessons at age seven with Eva Chan, then studied with Lev Shorr. She received a B.A. in music from Mills College in 1960, where she studied with Morton Subotnick, Nathan Rubin, and Colin Hampton, and performed with Hysteresis, a women’s creative arts group that included several Bay-area artists. In 1971, she completed a master’s degree in music at the University of California, San Diego, where she studied composition with Pauline Oliveros, Robert Erickson, and Kenneth Gaburo. Wong also studied Chinese music with David Liang, Lawrence Lui, and Leo Lew. Career In addition to piano, Wong plays sitar, guzheng, saz (a Turkish lute), kanjira and several other tradi