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Performance

Piano

Piano

Video in production

  • Project: Michele Cheng & Micah Huang duo

  • Performers: Michele Cheng (piano), Micah Huang (drum)

  • Date/Location: December 4, 2025 at Paine Hall

  • Project: To Be Heard X Unheard

  • Performers: Michele Cheng (composer, piano), Boroka Nagy (dancer, choreographer), Emily Yamashita (dancer), Tiffany Lee (actor)

  • Date/Location: March 4 & 5, 2016 at Experimental Media Performance Lab

Electronics

Electronics
  • Project: MATA Festival

  • Performers: Michele Cheng (composer, custom instrument/found objects) and International Contemporary Ensemble

  • Date/Location: May 4, 2022 at Roulette Intermedium

  • Watch solo version here

  • Project: Meoark

  • Performers: Michele Cheng (co-creator, custom instrument/voice/toy objects, video), Hassan Estakhrian (co-creator, custom audio processing tool/voice/E-bass, video)

  • Date/Location: April 5, 2024 at Stanford Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA)

  • Watch solo version here

  • Project: Sounding Psychedelia

  • Performers: Devon Gates (bass), Michele Cheng (synth), Weilu Ge (brainwave), John Pax (synth), anonymous (voice), and Micah Huang (composer, guitar)

  • Date/Location: November 16, 2024 at Holden Chapel

  • Project: Valerian Sun single "Sorry"

  • Credits: Valerian Sun and Michele Cheng (synth)

Performance History​

  • 2026  California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA, U.S.

  • 2025  International Computer Music Conference, Boston, MA, U.S.

  • 2025  Innovations in Sonority: Music from Custom-Built Instruments, Cambridge, MA, U.S.

  • 2024  Sound Collage: performance workshop with Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, U.S.

  • 2024  New York University, Manhattan, NY, U.S.

  • 2024  ICIT Anniversary Concerts, Irvine, CA, U.S.

  • 2024  Sonorities Festival Belfast, Belfast, NIR, U.K.

  • 2024  X Meoarks the Spot @ CCRMA, Stanford, CA, U.S.

  • 2024  Sounding Psychedelia, Cambridge, MA, U.S.

  • 2023  The University of Guelph, Guelph, Ont., CA

  • 2023  New Music Gathering, Portland, OR, U.S.

  • 2023  Ensemble Evolution Festival, Manhattan, NY, U.S.

  • 2023  Creative Practice & Critical Inquiry Showcase, Cambridge, MA, U.S.

  • 2023  Throwdown: 11/15/2023, Cambridge, MA, U.S.

  • 2022  MATA Festival, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.

  • 2022  International Alliance for Women in Music conference, Corvallis, OR, U.S.

  • 2021  International Computer Music Conference, Santiago, CL

  • 2021  CCRMA Quarantine Sessions #45

  • 2021  New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, NYC, NY, U.S.

  • 2021  Hot Air Music Festival, San Francisco, CA, U.S.

  • 2021  Seoul International Computer Music Festival, Seoul, KOR

  • 2021  SEAMUS Digital National Conference, U.S.

  • 2021  Pamela Z + fff ensemble, U.S.

  • 2020  CCRMA Quarantine Sessions #9, Electroacoustic Network Improvisation between California, Berlin, and Ghent

Electric bass

E-bass
  • Project: The Jam

  • Performers: Fadil Cantave (piano), Marisse Cato (violin), Micah Huang (percussion), Michele Cheng (E-bass), Jelani Surpris (E-guitar), Xavier Emmanuel (synths)

  • Date/Location: April 30, 2025 at Paine Hall

Performance History​

  • 2025  Creative Practice & Critical Inquiry Showcase, Cambridge, MA, U.S.

  • 2025  Berglind María Tómasdóttir: On Memory, Cambridge, MA, U.S.

  • 2023  Density 2036: Craig Taborn’s “Busy Griefs and Endangered Charms,” Cambridge, MA, U.S.

  • 2023  The Harvard New Music Ensemble, Cambridge, MA, U.S.

  • 2023  Ensemble Evolution Festival, Manhattan, NY, U.S.

  • 2023  Creative Practice & Critical Inquiry Showcase, Cambridge, MA, U.S

  • 2023  Throwdown: 11/15/2023, Cambridge, MA, U.S.

  • 2019  Stanford New Ensemble: Julie Zhu's Cheer Piece, Stanford, CA, U.S.

  • 2019  EXCURSIONS: TIFFANY LIN, San Francisco, CA, U.S.

  • 2015  ICIT Showcase, Irvine, CA, U.S.

  • 2012  Live Band (Mando-pop), Kaohsiung City, Taiwan

  • 2011  Live Band (Mando-pop), Kaohsiung City, Taiwan

  • 2009  Live Band Showcase (Mando-pop & J-pop), Kaohsiung City, Taiwan

Drum / Percussion

Drum

Video in production

  • Project: Emergent Musicalities Ensemble

  • Performers: Marisse Cato (piano), Michele Cheng (drum), Natalie Greffel (upright bass), Sofia Smith (vocal), Jelani Surpris (E-guitar)

  • Date/Location: December 4, 2025 at Paine Hall

Video in production

  • Project: Harvard New Music Ensemble

  • Performers: guests from Berklee School of Music and the Longy School of Music

  • Date/Location: December 5, 2023 at Paine Hall

Performance History​

  • 2025  Creative Practice & Critical Inquiry Showcase, Cambridge, MA, U.S.

  • 2023  The Harvard New Music Ensemble Showcase, Cambridge, MA, U.S.

  • 2023  Creative Practice & Critical Inquiry Showcase, Cambridge, MA, U.S.

  • 2020  SOLI- GRADUATE REPERTORY, Nitery Studio, Stanford, CA, U.S.

  • 2019  Daniel Pearl World Music Days Concert: Steve Reich “Daniel Variations” & “Different Trains,” Bing Concert Hall, Stanford, CA, U.S.

  • 2019  Stanford New Ensemble showcase, Dinkelspiel Auditorium, Stanford, CA, U.S.

  • 2019  Sō Percussion: Amid the Noise, Bing Concert Hall, Stanford, CA, U.S.

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