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Po-Wei Lai (賴伯瑋)

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Po-Wei Lai (賴伯瑋)

Identity Snapshot

  • English: Po-Wei Lai
  • Chinese: 賴伯瑋
  • Era: Birth Place
  • Geography: 台灣
  • Core roles: educator
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who

Po-Wei Lai, a native of Taiwan, began his violin studies at the age of six. He has also studied piano, Chinese violin and Chinese viola. At the age of 11, he became a soloist with the Gwung-Fu Orchestra, and several orchestras, he also performed in many major cities around the world, such as Melbourne, Sydney in Australia, Toronto in Canada, he was a soloist with the Gwung-Fu Orchestra, and at the age of 14, he was a soloist with the Double-Ten Orchestra in Taichung, Taiwan. In the same year, he performed in Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center in New York, as a concertmaster with the Double-Ten Orchestra. Mr. Lai completed his undergraduate and graduate violin studies with merit scholarships at the Peabody Conservatory of Music at Johns Hopkins University, and has won first prize in various competitions, including the Taiwan National Competition and the String Competition of Niagara International Chamber Music Festival. Now he teaches violin at his own studio and conducts at BAYMS in San Jose.

Education

  • Peabody Conservatory — year — B.S. Music
  • Peabody Conservatory — year — M.S. Music

Employment

  • BAYMS at San Jose — Present — Teaching Violin

Career Notes (absorbed from TAH bio)

  • Studies: violin from age six; also piano, Chinese violin (中國小提琴) and Chinese viola (中胡)
  • Child soloist: soloist with the Gwung-Fu Orchestra at age 11; soloist with the Double-Ten Orchestra (台中) at age 14
  • Performed as concertmaster with the Double-Ten Orchestra in Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, New York (age 14); guest soloist in Melbourne and Sydney (Australia) and Toronto (Canada)
  • Competitions: first prize, Taiwan National Competition; first prize, String Competition of the Niagara International Chamber Music Festival
  • Peabody Conservatory of Music (Johns Hopkins University): undergraduate and graduate violin studies on merit scholarships
  • Now teaches violin at his own studio and conducts at BAYMS (Bay Area Youth Music Society), San Jose

Timeline

  • Age 6 — began violin studies
  • Age 11 — soloist with the Gwung-Fu Orchestra
  • Age 14 — soloist with the Double-Ten Orchestra, Taichung; concertmaster appearance at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center
  • 2015 — profiled in the TAH encyclopedia (#293, #631)

Family

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Sources

  • |TAH Foundation
  • |TAHS
  • |taiwaneseamericanhistory.org
  • [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/293-po-wei-lai-e8-b3-b4-e4-bc-af-e7-91-8b-violinconductor-201509||TAH #293: Po-Wei Lai, Violin/Conductor]]
  • [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/631-po-wei-lai-e8-b3-b4-e4-bc-af-e7-91-8b-201509||TAH #631: Po-Wei Lai]]

Connected in the Vault

  • His own TAH encyclopedia entries are harvested in the vault: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/293-po-wei-lai-e8-b3-b4-e4-bc-af-e7-91-8b-violinconductor-201509||TAH #293]] and [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/631-po-wei-lai-e8-b3-b4-e4-bc-af-e7-91-8b-201509||TAH #631]].
  • No vault pages exist yet for the ensembles he is tied to (BAYMS San Jose, Gwung-Fu Orchestra, Double-Ten Orchestra); no new pages created per deepen protocol.

Vault records (deepen pass 2026-09-10)

  • The only vault records about him are his own TAH encyclopedia works — [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/293-po-wei-lai-e8-b3-b4-e4-bc-af-e7-91-8b-violinconductor-201509|TAH #293]] and [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/631-po-wei-lai-e8-b3-b4-e4-bc-af-e7-91-8b-201509|TAH #631]] (both 2015-09-27, band B) — listed via the taiwaneseamericanhistory.org source hub.
  • Vault-wide check (Po-Wei / 賴伯瑋 / Gwung-Fu / Double-Ten / BAYMS) found no other mentioning page, so the bio above already reflects everything held in the vault; no web consulted.
  • 2026-09-11 re-check: no new vault records mentioning him; no vault pages exist for BAYMS, Gwung-Fu Orchestra, Double-Ten Orchestra, Peabody Conservatory, or the Niagara festival, so no additional wikilinks were possible under the deepen protocol.

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