"From about 2012 to 2022, the Saratoga-raised Teng pursued a series of consulting gigs focusing on clean energy, eventually taking a job working more than full time with a nonprofit focusing on waste issues in the global South. It was basically my dream job, except for the part about not getting to do music, she said in a recent phone conversation from her home in Washington, D.C."
"In the Bay Area, however, her hiatus wasn't particularly evident, as she took advantage of her holiday visits back home to continue her annual December residency at the Freight. Instead of the Freight this year, she's playing Sweetwater Music Hall in Mill Valley on Dec. 4. I was only able to do maybe a dozen shows a year, she said. I didn't really have any creative space."
Vienna Teng recorded her first album as a Stanford undergrad and grew up in Saratoga. From about 2012 to 2022 she worked in clean-energy consulting and then more-than-full-time at a nonprofit addressing waste in the global South. She returned to performing after roughly a decade away while living in Washington, D.C. and parenting a five-year-old daughter. During holidays she maintained an annual December residency at the Freight, performing roughly a dozen shows a year. She will play Sweetwater Music Hall on Dec. 4 and will collaborate with the Viano Quartet at the Stanford Reunion Homecoming, presenting Beethoven's Harp Quartet and new arrangements of her songs.
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