Q: Who are your influences?

A: My parents’ record collection: Simon & Garfunkel, James Taylor, Mozart and Beethoven and Dvořák, 60s Mandarin pop. That’s what I started with and it’ll never leave me. Later on, pianist-songwriters: Elton John, Billy Joel, Tori Amos, Fiona Apple. These days I’m influenced by whoever intimidates me. I hear them, I’m astounded by them, I think daily about quitting music because I’ll never be able to do it as well as they do. Then I try to steal from them without imitating. A tricky thing.

Q: How would you classify your music?

A: Awkwardly. Most of the time I say “chamber folk” or “singer-songwriter.” It’s got elements of classical, folk, pop, jazz, Americana. I’d like the experience of listening to it to be like a good dinner party, the kind where conversation stretches ’til 2 in the morning and years later you still remember every flavor and color and sound and gesture, or at least you wish you could. Something like that.

Q: How long have you been playing piano?

A: Since I was five.

Q: Did you study at a conservatory?

A: No, just one-on-one piano lessons until I was seventeen. Changed my life, though.

Q: How did you learn to sing?

A: In the shower and in school choirs when I was younger, but mostly from playing gigs—that was when I finally got the hang of using my voice as an instrument. I took some lessons here and there, which amounted to paying -150 a week to be told that I was doing it all wrong. I don’t think we fixed anything. So maybe I haven’t learned to sing, actually.

Q: When did you start writing songs?

A: I think I was six when I decided I could cobble my own piano piece together. As for songs that I still play in public, the earliest ones are from high school.

Q: How long does it take for you to write a song?

A: A long time. Sometimes months. Occasionally over a year. I don’t revise all that much; it just takes that long for all the pieces to form and assemble. And it seems to get harder as I go, as the self-critic voice gets more insistent.

Q: Who arranges the songs for live performance?

A: It’s a collaborative process. The other musicians generally compose their own parts as we work through a song in rehearsal—sometimes they’re based on the studio recordings, oftentimes not. The string players tend to use a mix of written score and improvisations. Sometimes my bandmates have cool ideas for my parts, too.

Q: What’s your ethnic background?

A: My parents are Chinese and grew up in Taiwan. I was born and grew up in California. Rumor has it that I am also Vietnamese, Japanese, Korean, and/or hapa. Rumors are amusing, especially when they get me booked to perform for Korea Day at a university which will remain unnamed.

Q: What do your parents think of what you’re doing?

A: The short answer: they’re supportive, much more so than many immigrant parents would be. Mostly they want to make sure I’m taking care of my health, saving for retirement, and working smart. The long answer is more complex, of course. Arts and entertainment people are kind of an alien species to my folks, but I think they’re getting used to their daughter being one.

Q: How old are you?

Q: Is Vienna the name your parents gave you?

Q: How do you write your name in Chinese?

A: Wikipedia knows all. And is reasonably accurate, though I don’t know why it has a photo of me playing guitar onstage, which I’ve done exactly twice in my life.

Q: Is it true that you used to be a software engineer?

A: Yes. I got a BS in Computer Science from Stanford, and worked at Cisco Systems for two years as a programmer. These days I remember exactly enough to crash whatever computer I’m working on.

Q: Is it true that you went to/dropped out of medical school?

A: No. Can’t imagine paying off med school loans and funding an album…

Q: Is it true that you’re going to business/graduate school?

A: Yes.

Q: What was it like being on Letterman?

A: Surreal. Pretty much like how it’d be for you if you got called to play on the Late Show. I still think I dreamt the whole thing. Except the studio was very, very cold, and my dreams aren’t often cold.

Q: Which of your albums is the best one?

A: Like anyone, I’d hope that the most recent is always the strongest. I think I’m getting better as I go…

Q: Does constantly talking about yourself ever make you feel like an egomaniac?

A: Yes, yes it does. Makes me wish I were in a band sometimes.

Q: Are you ever going to release a live album?

A: Yes! Thanks for asking. (And asking, and asking.) We recently released The Moment Always Vanishing: Vienna Teng & Alex Wong, December 2009 on CD, as well as a USB drive version (with bonus tracks) and a companion art book. You can also get a live DVD shot in Philadelphia in January 2007, which features a larger ensemble. Bootleg-wise, there’s always the Internet Audio Archive, and YouTube.

Q: Is there sheet music of your songs?

A: Some of it, yes. There are piano-and-vocal songbooks for Waking Hour, Warm Strangers, and Dreaming Through The Noise now, thanks to hardworking transcriber David Beattie. Songbooks for the other albums are in the works. Eventually, we hope to release them simultaneously with the albums themselves.

Q: Do you ever reply to emails?

A: Very rarely. My apologies. It’s not a policy or anything; I’m just not good at staying on top of it. I promise that I do read everything, and that I’m grateful for everything that comes my way (including constructive criticism). Useful information always gets forwarded on to people who can do something with it.

Q: But I have a question…

A: It’s possible the answer is somewhere in the various online Q&A sessions I’ve done over the years. Or join the mailing list to find out when I’m having another! Someone else on the contact page might also be able to help you. 

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The College of Health Care Professions (CHCP), a Texas-based career college that has been training students in the health care field for over 25 years, is proud to announce it will expand their online campus beyond state lines to Arizona, Florida, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Virginia. All of the online expansion campuses will offer an online associates degree in Health Care Management (HCM), and most of the online campuses will also offer an associates degree in Health Information Technology and Management (HITM). These two programs are currently only available online from The College of Health Care Professions.

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Due to an overwhelming number of requests from students across the country for our Health Information Technology Management and Health Care Management programs, we are excited to now offer enrollment to students in these states to fulfill their educational needs and the employers that request these degrees, said Jon Emerald, CEO of The College of Health Care Professions.

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“Earning the prestigious Presidents ‘E’ Award for Excellence in Exporting is a true testament to what can be achieved through excellent teamwork. Were pleased to have a team of such high-quality people at Miller Weldmaster, said Scott Miller, Miller Weldmasters President. Exceptional people working together are what continue to lead us to our vision of being the First Choice Globally.

Im delighted to recognize this years Presidential ‘E Award winners for their outstanding contributions to U.S. exports and congratulate Miller Weldmaster on its outstanding export achievement, said Acting Secretary Blank. Businesses such as Miller Weldmaster are strengthening the economies of local communities, creating jobs, and contributing to the worldwide demand for American-produced goods and services.

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U.S. exports hit an all-time record of $ 2.2 trillion in 2012, and supported nearly 10 million American jobs. President Obamas National Export Initiative, which aims to double U.S. exports by the end of 2014 and support an additional two million jobs in the United States, is opening new avenues for U.S. exporters through enhanced export assistance and a strengthened trade agenda that is targeting emerging markets and industry sectors across the globe.

President Kennedy revived the World War II E symbol of excellence to honor and provide recognition to America’s exporters. The E Award Program was established by Executive Order 10978 on December 5, 1961. A total of 57 U.S. companies were presented with the Presidents E Award this year.

U.S. companies are nominated for the E Award for Exports through the Department of Commerces U.S. and Foreign Commercial Service office network, located within the Departments International Trade Administration, which has offices in 108 U.S. cities and more than 70 countries to help U.S. exporters. Four consecutive years of export growth and an applicants demonstration of an innovative international marketing plan that led to the increase in exports are significant determinants in earning the award.

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