Jeanette Wong, Artistic Director

Jeanette Wong is a passionate arts administrator, composer, and musician with over 20 years’ professional experience in arts management across multiple genres. Born and raised in San Francisco, she became Chamber Music San Francisco’s Executive Director in 2024, succeeding CMSF Founder Daniel Levenstein.

Prior to joining CMSF, Jeanette served as the Associate Director of Artistic Programming at SFJAZZ where her duties included management of the SFJAZZ Collective, booking the Joe Henderson Lab, and producing special events, including the SFJAZZ Gala and the NEA Jazz Masters tribute. Jeanette’s programming and curation supported a 25-week season, the 13-day San Francisco Jazz Festival, and four weeks of SFJAZZ Summer Sessions.

Jeanette began her career in 2004 at MTV Networks where she worked in public affairs at VH1. During her time living in New York, she managed logistics and communications at Michael Stockler Productions, the company of a theatre composer. She then joined the League of American Orchestras as a Member Services Associate before she was promoted to Program Coordinator in the League’s Learning and Leadership Development department.

Jeanette returned home to San Francisco in 2008 and joined the staff of the San Francisco Symphony, first in education programs before serving as Executive Assistant to the General Manager. She was promoted to Executive Assistant to the Chief Operating Officer in 2015 where she managed the executive office, served on the administration’s committee in negotiations, and was the contracts administrator for the Symphony’s tours and runout concerts. In addition to her administrative duties, Jeanette worked on production and logistics for the organization’s chamber music series and was a member of the team that launched SoundBox – a program designed to offer a new, more intimate concert experience to younger audiences through classical chamber music concerts in a club-like setting.

A strong supporter of music education and a former music teacher, Jeanette organized programs for the San Francisco Symphony that reached approximately 50,000 children throughout the Greater Bay Area each year, including the award-winning Adventures in Music program which sends chamber ensembles into all of San Francisco’s public elementary schools, and has researched and produced reports on public music education policy for the VH1 Save the Music Foundation. She served on the board of Living Dream Arts, an organization that provides arts education programs to youth in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Jeanette began her musical studies in piano and flute performance and is a classically-trained composer with a wide range of musical influences. Her interest in multimedia has led to collaborations in film, dance, and theatre in addition to more traditional concert and chamber works. Her music has been performed throughout the United States and Europe. She holds a Bachelor’s of Music in Theory & Composition from New York University and is an alumna of the Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts.