Performance
I make cultural knowledge audible, visible, and shared through live performance and demonstration.
Musician · Ethnomusicologist
Po-Wei Weng
Connecting music, language, and culture through performance, interdisciplinary dialogue, and cross-cultural exchange.
Arts education leader based in Boston area, with roots in Taiwan.
A Connected Practice
Artistic practice, interdisciplinary dialogue, and leadership in arts education.
Scholarship
I examine how music, language, gesture, and memory carry knowledge across traditions.
Education
I design participatory learning experiences that deepen dialogue and cross-cultural exchange.
Performance has shaped a lifetime of learning.
About
An artist-scholar shaped by performance and education.
Drawing on Peking Opera, East Asian performing traditions, and arts education, I connect performance, scholarship, education, and leadership in arts education across cultural and institutional settings.
My work explores the intersections of music, theater, gesture, language, cultural identity, and technology.
Originally from Taiwan, I began professional Peking Opera training at age twelve and completed ten years of study at the National Kuo-Kuang Academy of Arts as both an actor and instrumentalist. I later earned an M.A. in Musicology from National Taiwan University and pursued graduate studies in Ethnomusicology at Wesleyan University, where I served as conductor and instructor of the Chinese Music Ensemble, creating collaborations across orchestral, choral, taiko, Korean percussion, and Javanese gamelan traditions.
Today, I serve as Assistant Head of School at Walnut Hill School for the Arts, where my work extends from performance and scholarship to arts education, international partnerships, and educational leadership.
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