louisa foong.
Louisa is a Malaysian pianist, music producer, band leader, arranger, conductor and music engineer. She’s been a classical pianist since the age of 4 and is a Summa Cum Laude graduate from Berklee College of Music where she earned a degree in Contemporary Writing & Production. Foong’s passion and versatility in music writing includes writing for live arrangements, notable bands and orchestras.
As a musician, she wrote her first Gospel original, “God is Love,” that was showcased at the Berklee Women Musicians Network 20th Anniversary Concert.Her aspiration to be at the forefront of women musicians continues as she embarks on her musical journey. As a part of this mission, she dedicates her time to teaching at her music school Pine Music Academy. She enjoys teaching students of all ages and enriching her local community of Los Angeles and surrounding cities.
Louisa is a touring musician and has opened for Richard Clayderman’s tour in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. She also sang with the Berklee Gospel Choir with Grammy Award Winner, Chris Tomlin, at his “Love Ran Red” tour in Lowell in 2015.
Her talent for arrangement led to her producing and directing her first music video, “Revival,” and managing her first concert. Louisa was selected as an arranger for Berklee’s 2016 Commencement Concert. She also arranged and was the opening conductor for Wang Lee Hom’s Open Fire Concert at Boston Symphony Hall. Louisa was later featured in “Berklee’s Great American Songbook: Tribute to Laurel Canyon” as arranger and conductor. Her role as music director for the Ivy League’s Spring Festival Gala’s closing act,artist Junshu Zheng, further amplified her experience. In 2017 she was a guest judge for Chinese reality television singing competition, “Sing! China,” in the Boston area.
She is credited as the music producer for Beyoncé's Original All-Female Band: A 10 Year Anniversary Concert Trailer.
Whether it's arranging classical songs or working with her students, she is passionate with a fresh perspective on music.
news & collaborations
Louisa Foong : REVIVAL (event appearance)*
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I am honoured to present to you my first show in Berklee College of Music, sharing you with some of my originals and songs that I grew up with. Come join me as I wrap up my Berklee journey with some amazing musicians.
MO BOUNCE band
Mo Bounce brings the party and energy to a performance like no other playing the funkiest dance hits from past to present! Always booking, join the party and get ready for you and your guests to dance the time away. Mo Bounce exists to fill a void in New England with authentic-sounding, danceable, funky hits with raw entertaining performance and style!
ICOM Alumni Review
“Taking the role as a conductor of your own composition, from something that you’ve written only with the sounds of your own imagination, and when u finally get to hear it in reality, it’s too overwhelming. Another beautiful moment captured in my Berklee journey.
Never would I expected to be conducting when I first declared this major, and as much as I wanted to when I was a child. Dreams do come true.
I’m truly blessed and thankful.” — Louisa Foong
We are so proud of you Louisa! Keep up the passion burning!
Nicholas Suchecki Recital
Wednesday / May 27, 2015 / 4:00 p.m.
Berk Recital Hall
1140 Boylston Street, Boston, MA, 02215, United States
Malaysian Pianist makes waves in international music
KUALA LUMPUR: Louisa Foong, who starts her music lesson at the age of four at the Yamaha Music School’s special course for gifted kids, has never stop fulfilling her dreams to be an established woman musician.
Turning aged 25 in August, the Kuala Lumpur born musician, not only has produced and directed her first music video “Revival” in December 2015, but two months later on February 29, 2016 managed to hold her first concert named after her music video at the Berklee College of Music, Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
Chinese Pop Tribute Recital
In the hopes of raising awareness of the sounds of Chinese music amongst Berklee students, Xingyu Yao and Louisa Foong, both from China and Malaysia respectively, worked together to co-produce the Chinese Pop Tribute Concert at Berklee College of Music.
Xingyu and Louisa met during an event held in Fall 2015 by the Pandatonic Club – a club that introduces and highlights Asian music and cultures, striving to enhance collaborations between Asians and non-Asians to promote diversity and inclusion. Realizing the need to eradicate people’s unawareness of the sounds of Chinese music amid the vast diversity in Berklee, they both felt an equally strong urge to initiate the first step to spark an interest in Chinese music amongst the Berklee community, and hence the inauguration of Chinese Pop Tribute Concert.
Tribute to Wang Lee Hom (Boston Symphony Hall)*
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Boston, Nov. 15, 2016, — The fully-packed, sold-out performance hall at BSO was packed with over 2,500 Sunday night. They embraced Wang LeeHom, who received an honorary doctoral degree from Berklee College of Music, along with the array of orchestral, vocal, and Chinese drum performers, many of whom are current students or faculty of world-renowned Berklee College of Music.
Michael Bivins talks diversity at Berklee*
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New Edition’s Michael Bivins was among the speakers at a Berklee panel about diversity — or the lack of it — in the music business. The day-long event, presented by the student-led After Berklee Panel Series (ABPS) and Women in Music, the event was intended to give graduating seniors a sense of what they can expect.
MEDIA GALLERY
Thai Pop Song Collaboration
J-Pop Cover Project
JOHN LINER & THE FAMILY CAF SHOW 2017
Photographs taken by : Leighanne Sturgis
Amni Musfirah (NEW YORK HIGH Release Party)
Photographs taken by : Ariff Danial
Women Musicians Network : 20th Anniversary Concert
Photographs taken by : Yuwei Huang
The Quantum X (opening for Northeastern University’s Mid-Autumn Festival 2016
Photographs taken by : Yuwei Huang, Taiga Kunii
Women Musicians Network 2015
Photographs taken by : Louisa Foong
Rhythm & Frequencies (CWP Concert ‘15)
Photographs taken by : Jordan Johnson & Yuwei Huang
Dearest Friend (Film soundtrack) Recording feat. Karlea Lynne Boswell-Edwards
Photographs taken by : Yuwei Huang
ARRANGING / conducting & PERFORMing
commercials & trailers
All videos are project demos only.