Artist-in-Residence
Taige Wang

Taige has won numerous piano competitions, including the First Prize (and four special prizes: Best Classical Sonata, Best Artistry, the first-ever Manana Doijashvili Special Prize — Best Performance of a Georgian Work by Nicolas Namoradze, and Best Recital in the Semifinal) at the 8th Tbilisi International Piano Competition, . the Seattle International Piano Competition, YAMAHA Piano E-Competition, the Rosalyn Tureck Bach Competition, and the Thomas and Evon Cooper Competition (ages 13–18). He was the youngest competitor and quarterfinalist at the Cliburn Junior Competition (ages 13–17).
Most recently, he has been selected as the youngest participant to compete in the Tbilisi International Piano Competition (16–33) and the Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition (16–31).He has collaborated with The Cleveland Orchestra and Aspen Festival Orchestra and has performed alongside violinist Ray Chen. Taige has appeared on From the Top and has been featured on NPR, CBS, Medici.tv, and national television in Poland, Hungary, and China.His performances have taken him to the Great Wall, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Helsinki Music Centre, Royal Palace of Gödöllő, and Polish Heart Club, the latter in the presence of and with the sponsorship of the Duke of Kent.Taige studies composition with Bruce Adolphe, and his honors include being a finalist in the ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Awards Competition and National Young Composers Challenge, as well as winning the Grand Prize in the Sempre Music Composition Competition, Honorable Mention in the Robert Avalon International Competition, and First Place in the Composers Today State (CA) Contest.
His works include Chopin vs. Chopin 2.0, a piano trio commissioned by the CMS of Lincoln Center and premiered at Alice Tully Hall. A longtime collaborator with MusicON NYC, he premiered the NAN Trio and Variations on a Theme from Bizet’s Carmen for piano and pipa at the National Opera Center and Trois Nouvelles at THE BLANC. In October 2026, he was named MusicON NYC’s Artist-in-Residence, a role in which he will debut a new annual commission and perform an opening solo recital at each year's MusicON Festival.