BIOGRAPHY (ENGLISH SHORT)
The Wong Janice is a cellist and composer of ambient cello meditation music with 50 million Spotify streams, 1 million streams on Insight Timer app and has performed for more than 150 companies around the world such as Google, Meta, Microsoft, Airbnb and Adidas for various virtual wellness events and all-hands meetings.
Her music and cello meditation concerts have been featured in print (Happinez, LINDA) & online publications (Forbes, Lonely Planet), she has opened TEDxAmsterdam (2021) and performed at everything from festivals, ecstatic dance, corporate events, club nights, yoga retreats, cacao ceremonies to private house concerts and weddings.
The Wong Janice’s specialty is her constant exploration of the cello through electronic technologies such as effect pedals and loop machines and sharing her music in the form of audio/video, online courses and in-person/virtual performances as a tool for meditation, to help calm down the nervous system, help fall asleep, increase clarity, or transform mood.
She has released 4 audio courses on Insight Timer platform and 4 video classes on Skillshare, and has been featured on both platforms.
BIOGRAPHY (ENGLISH FULL)
Janice Wong, better known as The Wong Janice is a meditation teacher and cellist based in Amsterdam in The Netherlands helping millions of people feel more centred and calm through deep ambient cello meditation music, sounding somewhere in between Zoe Keating, Hildur Guðnadóttir and David Darling. She spends her days recording and editing cello meditation music in her home studio, hosting virtual cello meditation concerts from her living room, and guiding people to find their inner peace through online courses.
Born and raised in Melbourne, Australia, The Wong Janice began playing the cello at age 8, completing her classical training with a Licentiate Diploma of Music (L.Mus.A) at a young age of 18 and started working as a live session cellist and studio session cellist in multiple genres such as singer-songwriter, indie-folk, EDM and film soundtracks. Since moving to Amsterdam in 2010, she has scored notable performances with world-renowned artists Imogen Heap, Michael Kiwanuka and RY X as well as having performed in renowned Amsterdam venues such as Paradiso, Melkweg, Stadsschouwburg, The Royal Concertgebouw and multiple radio appearances on NPO Radio 3. In 2018 she graduated with an Advanced Diploma of Music Production and Sound Engineering at Abbey Road Institute to further her technical music skills and worked as Assistant Audio Engineer at Red Bull Studios Amsterdam.
In 2019 she decided to follow her dreams and compose her own music. By then, as meditation had become a huge part of her life, she realised they were the two things in her life that she wanted to practice and preach every single day. And if she could help herself and help others at the same time, then why not? With that, her solo cello meditation project was born. She released her debut album ‘Cello Music for Meditation’ and to complement, a unique live cello meditation concept: an intimate lie-down concert of deep ambient cello vibrations and sweeping cello melodies with her effect pedals and loop machine which led to sold-out shows in both The Netherlands and Australia and performances at TEDxAmsterdam and festivals such as Amsterdam Dance Event and Down The Rabbit Hole.
During the outbreak of covid-19 and the worldwide pandemic in early 2020, The Wong Janice started offering Virtual Cello Meditation Concerts to individuals all around the world to help cope with the lockdown and isolation. Her Online Cello Meditation Concert was mentioned in Forbes, Lonely Planet, ADWEEK, DailyMail and The Washington Post and she became a top-10 seller on Airbnb Online Experiences. Now she has been booked by more than 150 companies worldwide such as Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Adidas, Airbnb and Philips for virtual wellness and team-building events.
The Wong Janice currently has more than 50 million streams on Spotify. Her solo albums ‘Enter The Cosmos: Ambient Cello Meditation’ and ‘Ambient Cabin Sessions’ have been selected by Spotify editors for The Listening Room and Ambiente playlists. Her piano/cello pop covers with wedding pianist Benny Martin and other instrumental collaborations with Little Symphony, River Camille, Victor Butzelaar, Sacha Hoedemaker, Emiel Samandar and Ming Quay have been well received on Spotify algorithmic playlists and has been selected by the Spotify editors of the Classical New Releases playlist three times.
In collaboration with meditation app Insight Timer, in 2020 she released ‘Chakra Cleansing with Deep Cello’, a 10-day online course designed to help you break free from emotional blockages through the healing and restorative power of sound, which now has more than 22,000 students. She has 3 follow up courses also hosts free live sessions on the app. She also has 4 classes on Skillshare, where she is a Top Teacher and has been selected as a Staff Pick.
For more, see her website https://www.thewongjanice.com, subscribe on YouTube and follow The Wong Janice on Instagram at @thewongjanice.
