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Award winning pianist Donna Weng Friedman enjoys a varied
career as a soloist, chamber musician, educator, curator, producer and app
developer. Her album Heritage and
Harmony: Silver Linings, featuring exclusively AAPI/BIPOC artists, aims to
promote understanding and tolerance and combat racism, with all proceeds
donated to an organization that supports the AAPI community and fights against
racism. Recorded and released during the
pandemic, the album was presented with two Silver Medals at the 2022 Global
Music Awards.
In collaboration with WQXR, Donna created and produced
Heritage and Harmony, a virtual concert series in celebration of Asian Pacific
Heritage Month. Her story was featured
on Asian Americans of New York & New
Jersey | WLIW21 and was aired on PBS.
She is the co-creator and co-host of HER/MUSIC;HER/STORY, a
mini-series on WQXR as well as a concert series that shines a light on women
composers, past and present. Donna was
recently awarded a New York Women Composers grant for 2022. She was the guest
speaker on TEDx Santa Barbara’s series Making Waves: Conversations with
Influencers and Disruptors. Donna is the Artistic Advisor of Ariel Rivka Dance,
an all-female dance company.
In January and April 2021, Donna was the featured guest
artist on the National Women’s History Museum’s series NWHM Presents:
Sundays@Home, honoring women whose activism and talents serve to inspire
others. On March 8th, 2022, she launched
a new education program in collaboration with the National Women’s History
Museum called Heritage and Harmony: Her Art, Her Voice, featuring leading
female BIPOC role models in the arts who share their stories of heritage, their
challenges and their triumphs, as they seek to inspire and empower future
generations of groundbreaking young women.
Donna has performed in concert halls worldwide, and appeared
as soloist with major symphony orchestras, including the Atlanta, Philadelphia
and Shanghai Symphony Orchestras.
The curator of the Donna Weng Friedman '80 Master Class
Series at Princeton University, she is also a member of Princeton University
Music Department’s Advisory Council. Ms.
Weng Friedman received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Princeton University
where she was a University Scholar and a Master of Music Degree from the
Juilliard School.
She was the music supervisor and recording artist for the
award-winning film documentary “Frames of Life” as well as for the
documentaries “Living Liberty” and “Morris Engle: The Independent”. Ms. Weng Friedman created “The Music Bee
Club” interactive classical music app series for children ages 2-8 featuring
world class musicians, such as principal cellist of the NY Philharmonic Carter
Brey and flutist Elizabeth Mann, produced by twenty-one-time Grammy Award
winner David Frost.