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Taylor Wang is an active performer as both a solo and collaborative pianist. Her recent solo engagements include performances at the PianoArts North American Competition in Milwaukee, the Mannes Summer Piano Festival in New York City, the Chicago International Music Festival, the Amalfi Coast Festival in Italy, and the Community Concerts at Second in Baltimore. Taylor is also an active collaborative pianist and regularly works with both vocalists and instrumentalists as a conservatory accompanist at the Peabody Institute. She was invited to work with Prof. Elizabeth Bishop’s vocal studio in their weekly studio classes for the 2023-24 and 2024-25 academic years. Taylor has had the opportunity to attend SongFest and Houston Grand Opera’s Young Artist Vocal Academy where she focused on vocal collaborative piano work. In addition, Taylor has played and performed with various chamber ensembles in venues such as Griswold Hall and Cohen-Davison Theatre at the Peabody Institute and Jordan Hall at the New England Conservatory as well as abroad in Canada and Germany.

Taylor has always been interested in using music to help others through community outreach. She was a Musician-in-Residence at Edenwald Senior Living Community where she provided musical programming. She has previously performed as part of the Music for a While (MFAW) program, a partnership between the Peabody Institute and the Johns Hopkins Medicine’s Office of Well-Being and Department of Service Excellence. In her work with MFAW, she played regularly at the Johns Hopkins Hospital to bring music to the healthcare environment and increase public access to music.

Taylor is the founder and student director of Peabody at the Shelter, which programs monthly concerts at Helping Up Mission, a local addiction recovery center and shelter for those experiencing homelessness to bring a renewed sense of hope and community to the shelter. Peabody at the Shelter was initially launched with the support of Peabody Institute’s 2023 Launch Grant and was also designated as the Travers Grant with the support of the Travers Foundation. Now, Peabody at the Shelter is supported by the Johns Hopkins University Urban Health Institute’s 2024 Baltimore Health Equity Impact Grant.

Taylor has received a number of other grants and scholarships from the Peabody Institute such as the Career Development Grant in 2020, the 2021-22 Frederick Campbell Colston Memorial Piano Scholarship, the 2023-24 Carroll X. Skinner Skurzynski Endowed Scholarship, and the 2024-25 Leonie Shorey Scholarship . Taylor has received scholarships and grants from numerous other organizations including Saarburg Festival of Germany, National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC), Ohio Association for Gifted Children (OAGC), Ohio Music Teachers Association (OMTA), and Music Loves Ohio.

Taylor Wang is pursuing both Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University where she studies with Boris Slutsky. In 2020, she graduated from Walnut Hill School for the Arts where she studied with Sergey Schepkin. She has studied piano with Michael Chertock, Nina Polonsky, Eric Street, Sergei Polusmiak, Natalia Harlap, Yoshikazu Nagai, and HieYon Choi. She has performed at masterclasses with renowned pianists and teachers such as Nelita True, Jerry Wong, Emile Naoumoff, John O’Conor, Bruce Brubaker, Lang Lang, Meng-Chieh Liu, and Richard Goode.