Taktin Oey

Taktin Oey is an American composer from Princeton Junction, New Jersey.

He graduated from West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North in 2004. [http://www.state.nj.us/education/news/2004/0623byrd_a.htm Robert C. Byrd Honors Scholarship: 2004 Winners] , New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed September 23, 2007.] He currently attends Harvard University.

He has received a range of awards including the 1999 and 1996 ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers) and First Prize for his Piano Quartet in the European Region’s Young Composers’ Competition in 2000.

Taktin’s Symphony #1 was given its world premiere in 1997 by the Princeton Chamber Symphony, and was performed in 1998 by the Orchestra London in Ontario.

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