Taktin Oey is an American composer

Composer

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 from Princeton Junction, New Jersey

Princeton Junction, New Jersey

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He graduated from West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North

West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North

West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North, also known as WW-P North, is a four-year public comprehensive high school located in Plainsboro Township in Middlesex County, New Jersey serving students in grades 9 through 12...

 in 2004. He graduated from Harvard University

Harvard University

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in 2008.

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.

Oey'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.