TEKTONIK Music is a record label and an artist collective. It was founded by the two-time Grammy Award-winning cellist, trombonist and composer Dana Leong, and it brings together musicians, visual artists and technologists from more than ten countries around one question, which is whether music can measurably change how a person feels, and whether that can be put to work where people need it most.

Where it began

In March 2011 an earthquake, a tsunami and a nuclear disaster struck the Tōhoku region of Japan. It was the home region of Dana Leong’s mother, the pianist Sumiko Nagasawa, and it was decimated.

TEKTONIK was the response. It started as benefit concerts for disaster and trauma relief, and what it became was a body of work built on the same conviction that started it, that music is not decoration around a crisis but a tool you can bring to one.

What the work became

The concerts came first and still carry the name, from Mercedes-Benz Arena in Shanghai to thirty one nights of original score and projection mapping for the reopening of Tai Kwun in Hong Kong, and to ten thousand people at the Shanghai Arts Festival.

Then came the sessions. One of the largest sound baths ever staged, inside Grace Cathedral in San Francisco. #HarmonyHeals, streamed into more than twenty recovery hospitals in Wuhan. Guided listening on the main stage of the Global Wellness Summit.

And then the recordings, made to the same brief. Sweet Sleep Meditations was built with Skywalker Sound engineers, Stanford University neuroscientists and the EMOTIV brain scanner, and entered on the 2026 Grammy ballot. NeuroSymphony goes a step further and lets an audience drive the music live with their own brainwaves.

Across concerts, streams and installations the work has reached more than 100 million people in over 26 countries.

The company we keep

TEKTONIK is commissioned by institutions that do not usually commission music. The United Nations Global Compact Leaders Summit commissioned the film Isobel and premiered it at UN Headquarters in New York. The inaugural Alibaba XIN Philanthropy Conference programmed the collective on a bill with Jack Ma and the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. A Save the Children gala in Hong Kong raised millions for Nepal earthquake relief. The Varkey Foundation put Dream State on the Global Teacher Prize stage in Dubai alongside Hugh Jackman and Rita Ora, and the Aurora Prize closed its ceremony in Yerevan with TEKTONIK, following the Prime Minister of Armenia.

The World Economic Forum has hosted the collective again and again, from Summer Davos in Dalian and Tianjin to the Young Global Leaders summits in Geneva, Tokyo and Dubai.

The founder

Dana Leong is a two-time Grammy Award-winning cellist, trombonist, composer and producer. The two Grammy Awards were for Panamericana Suite with Paquito D’Rivera, in Best Latin Jazz Album and Best Classical Contemporary Composition.

He became the youngest instructor in the history of the Stanford Jazz Workshop at sixteen and still teaches there, and he studied public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. He was named a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader in 2015 and a UBS Global Visionary in 2017, honoured at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. As a United States Music Ambassador with The Rhythm Road, a programme of Jazz at Lincoln Center and the US Department of State, he toured Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, the Philippines and Japan.

His commissions run from Dream State, written for Richard Branson and Virgin Galactic, to runway music for Prada and the theme song AEON, written for a car launch at Mercedes-Benz Arena and now the collective’s signature release.

Where it goes next

The scholarship, the hospital work and the research continue, and so does the touring. If you are looking to commission a performance, licence the catalogue or bring a session to your own people, the ways in are set out on the services page.

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