Randy Wong is a bassist, composer, and arts educator originally from Honolulu, Hawaii. Founder of the exotic ‘tiki‘ lounge group WAITIKI, and co-founder of the record label Pass Out Records, Wong makes his living as a professional musician, educator, and educational researcher in Boston, Massachusetts.

Mr. Wong spends his days at New England Conservatory’s Center for Music-In-Education, where he is Director of its Guided Internship Program and leads its Music-In-Education Concentration Program and Research Center with Larry Scripp. Mr. Wong is also Associate Editor of the Music-in-Education National Consortium’s Journal for Music-In-Education and is the Consortium’s information architect.

In 2007, Wong’s group WAITIKI was recognized by the Hawaii Music Awards Foundation with the creation of an award for “Exotica Album of the Year,” in recognition of Wong’s work in the revitalization of that genre, along with that category’s first award (for the album “Charred Mammal Flesh: Exotic Music for BBQ”). Recordings of Wong’s music with WAITIKI can be heard frequently on NPR-affiliate stations throughout the United States, as well as on similar public radio stations in Mexico, British Columbia, Quebec, Japan, and France.

As double bassist, Wong freelances with the Honolulu Symphony, the Indian Hill Symphony Orchestra, as Principal with the New Bedford Symphony Orchestra, and with a number of other professional and festival orchestras, jazz groups, concert bands (and even marching bands), along the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

Mr. Wong holds a bachelor’s degree in classical double bass performance from New England Conservatory, and a master’s degree in education (Arts In Education) from the Harvard University Graduate School of Education. He is on faculty at the Pacific Music Institute, a program of the Hawaii Youth Symphony, and maintains a private teaching studio in Boston and by correspondence.

For more information about Randy Wong, please visit: http://www.randywong.net