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 is currently the Executive Director of Chamber Music San Francisco.

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 of SFJAZZ’s Joe Henderson Lab supported a 25-week season, the 13-day San Francisco Jazz Festival, and four weeks of SFJAZZ Summer Sessions.

Jeanette began her career at MTV Networks where she worked in public affairs for VH1. During her time living in New York, she managed logistics and communications at Michael Stockler Productions, while freelancing as a production assistant for music and theatre productions. She then joined the League of American Orchestras as a Member Services Associate overseeing membership acquisitions and renewals before she was promoted to Program Coordinator in the League’s Learning and Leadership Development department. In this role, she interfaced directly with leaders and staff in the orchestra field and managed the League’s Executive Leadership program, the Orchestra Management Fellowship, and additional programs designed to strengthen and grow the strengths and skills of orchestra executives and senior staff.

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 during union negotiations, and was the contracts administrator for the Symphony’s tours and runout concerts. In addition to her administrative duties, Jeanette 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 has organized programs for the San Francisco Symphony that served approximately 50,000 children throughout the Greater Bay Area each year, including the award-winning Adventures in Music program, researched and produced reports on public music education policy for the VH1 Save the Music Foundation, and was the League of American Orchestra’s liaison to Youth Orchestras nationwide. 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 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. She was a recipient of the New Music Consortium’s Undergraduate Award and was selected as a Composition Fellow for the Cortona Sessions for New Music, a Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts Residency, and one of Fairbanks Arts Festival’s Composing in the Wilderness composers. She has studied composition with Marc-Antonio Consoli, D.C. Meckler, Ronald Bruce Smith, and Maia Aprahamian; film scoring with Sonny Kompanek; and orchestration with Justin Dello Joio. Her interest in multimedia has led to collaborations in film, dance, and theater in addition to more traditional concert and chamber works. Her music has been performed throughout the United States and Europe.

Jeanette began her musical studies in piano and flute performance. Principal teachers include Joan Baker, Alex Davis and Kathleen Riley on piano and Esther Landau, Jeanette Nissley, and Gail Edwards on flute.