Presents Series: Vienna Teng

Vienna Teng’s adventurous chamber-folk songwriting has drawn praise from the likes of NPR and David Byrne, and garnered a loyal following across North America, Europe and beyond. Currently she also organizes music fans to take action on climate, in collaboration with groups like Climate Changemakers and Music Declares Emergency. 

It helps that Vienna's sound has never stood still. Her warm, delicate mezzo has drawn listeners since 2002, when her debut Waking Hour landed appearances on NPR's Weekend Edition, The Late Show with David Letterman, and the top of Amazon’s charts. But she’s built different worlds around that voice from album to album: the string-laced intimacy of Warm Strangers, the hushed jazz of Dreaming Through the Noise, the eclectically ambitious Inland Territory, the shimmering electronica of Aims. She’s world-built for other voices too, as composer for original stage musical The Fourth Messenger. You can hear how she’s metabolized influences like Paul Simon and Tori Amos, particularly their adventurousness and attention to songcraft. But Vienna Teng doesn't quite sound like anyone else.