Francis Wong has been a performer on the saxophone and the flute for the past 20 years and a composer for the past 16 years. He is currently a Meet The Composer New Resident in the San Francisco Bay Area and a recording artist for Asian Improv Records. He leads the ensemble Gathering of Ancestors in addition to directing many special projects. He is a frequent collaborator with musicians Tatsu Aoki, Elliot Humberto Kavee, William Roper and with poet/performer Genny Lim. He has also worked with the late Glenn Horiuchi, with Jon Jang, John Tchicai, James Newton, Cecil Taylor, Anthony Brown and Liu Qi-Chao. He has composed scores for choreographers Sachiko Nakamura and Pearl Ubungen and for theater companies San Francisco Mime Troupe, Thick Description and A World of Tales. Wong is also active as a community leader and teacher. He was a California Arts Council Artist in Residence 1992-1998 and has been a lecturer in the San Francisco State University Music Department and the American Studies Department at the University of California at Santa Cruz. In 2000-2001 he was a Rockefeller Foundation Next Generation Leadership Fellow. He is co-founder and Creative Director of Asian Improv aRts, a 15-year-old multidisciplinary arts production company and is the current Executive Producer of Asian American Jazz/SF, the longest running jazz festival in San Francisco. He also serves as President of Justice Matters Institute, a SF-based social justice organization.

As a saxophonist, he is recognized as carrying on the legacy of that instrument in American music, owing a particular debt to the work of John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins and the contemporary master, David Murray. In addition to the African American masters, he is inspired by the late Native American saxophonist Jim Pepper and the respected Persian American saxophonist and scholar Hafez Modirzadeh. San Francisco Examiner critic Philip Elwood has named Wong "...among the great saxophonists of his generation."