She received the 1988 Hollywood Dramalogue Critics Award for Outstanding Achievement for Original Music Theater for her work on Eugene O'Neill's Marco Millions.
in music from Mills College in 1960, where she studied with Morton Subotnick, Nathan Rubin, and Colin Hampton, and performed with Hysteresis, a women's creative arts group that included several Bay-area artists.
[3] In 1971, she completed a master's degree in music at the University of California (San Diego), where she studied composition with Pauline Oliveros, Robert Erickson, and Kenneth Gaburo.
[4] In addition to piano, Wong plays sitar, guzheng, saz (a Turkish lute), kanjira and several other traditional Asian instruments.
With Shirley, Wong co-manages and performs with the Flowing Stream Ensemble, a sizhu (traditional silk and bamboo orchestra)[5] which was founded in 1973.