Please join us for an evening of contemporary harp music written & performed by Bay Area raised songwriter, Leng Bian.  While currently based in Los Angeles, Bian's songmatter is heavily influenced by her teen and young adult years growing up in San Francisco, reconciling unresolved questions of sense of belonging and identity in a rapidly-changing hometown.  Her set will include her most recent release, "Snakes Down the Mountain," an ode to Mount Tamalpais.  

San Francisco-based violist, Angie Zheng will open the performance with a solo set of original work.  

Leng Bian is a harp player, composer, & songwriter from San Francisco, California.  She began playing the harp at the age of four upon seeing the instrument for the first time and describing the experience as "love at first sight."  Her music is inspired by the wide array of Folk styles she grew up playing as a child, gently provoking the boundaries that delineate compositions and songs.  Her harp playing has been featured on the recorded work of several artists, such as Sloppy Jane, Tommy Genesis, Choker, Zsela, Angelo de Augustine & Magdalena Bay. 

Angie Zheng 郑晴 (b. 2000) is a violist, teacher, and artist from Shanghai, currently living and working in San Francisco. She builds a world through documenting fleeting and cyclical forms, considering memory and space in the context of performance, gathering, and installation. Guided by the people, places, and seasons she encounters, her practice is deeply grounded in her classical music upbringing in Shanghai and studies in Viola Performance, Architectural Studies, and Food Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.