Taylor Lee, a 15-year-old freshman at West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North, has won the Manalapan Battleground Symphony’s Young Artist Concerto Competition and will perform the first movement of Beethoven Concerto No. 3, C minor, Opus 37 with the orchestra on Saturday, May 13.##M:[more]##
Taylor, a member of the Greater Princeton Youth Orchestra, was also winner of the Young Pianist Competition of New Jersey and the Golden Key Music Art Festival. Taylor has performed at Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center, and the Weill Recital Hall and Isaac Stern Auditorium of Carnegie Hall.
In addition to playing piano and violin, Taylor has been involved with Science Olympiad for the past four years. He also is the concert master of his school’s string ensemble. While he is not playing piano and violin, Taylor plays on North’s varsity tennis team. Other interests include reading, swimming, and playing Rubik’s Cube.
A West Windsor resident, he is the son of Laurence, a managing director at UBS Investment Bank on Wall Street, and Phoebe Lee, a sales associate with Keller Williams. His brothers are Brandon, an eighth grader at Community Middle School, and Justin, a student at Millstone River School.
Taylor, who plans to attend Lawrenceville School in September, is currently studying piano with Chiu-Tze Lin, conductor of the Manalapan Battleground Symphony. He is also studying violin with William Law.
Spring Concert, Manalapan Battleground Symphony, Manalapan-Englishtown Middle School, 155 Millhurst Road, Manalapan, 732-446-8355. $10. Free for under 16. Saturday, May 13, 7:30 p.m.
