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Winnie Cheng-Wen Lai (賴政雯)

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Winnie Cheng-Wen Lai (賴政雯)

Identity Snapshot

  • English: Winnie Cheng-Wen Lai
  • Chinese: 賴政雯
  • Era: Contemporary
  • Geography: Kaohsiung, Taiwan
  • Core roles: oboist, chamber musician, educator
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who

New York-based Oboist Chengwen Winnie Lai maintains a varied chamber music and orchestra career. Winnie performs in Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players, IRIS Chamber Orchestra in Memphis, the Metropolitan Opera, the Seattle Symphony, San Diego Symphony Summer Pop as a guest principal, New Jersey Symphony, and Metropolitan Opera Orchestra’s Japan Tour in 2011 as substitute principal. As a chamber musician, Winnie has performed with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Family Concert, Argento Chamber Ensemble, chamber musician at Bargemusic, and the Declassified. As a charter member of the Academy – a Program of Carnegie Hall, The Juilliard School and the Weill Music Institute, Winnie has performed chamber music extensively in Carnegie Hall with Ensemble ACJW. Her festival appearances include Marlboro, Aspen Festival, National Repertory Orchestra, Pacific Music Festival Orchestra, Music Academy of the West. Winnie has had the opportunity to collaborate with recording artist Bjork for her “Drawing Restraint 9”. In 2011, Winnie recorded Sonata for oboe and piano for James Cohn’s album, A Grecian Festival, by MSR label. As a teacher, Winnie has taught at chamber music conference at

Education

  • The Juilliard School — Bachelor of Music — The Juilliard School — Master of Music

Employment

  • Seattle Symphony Orchestra — Oboist — Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players — Oboist — IRIS Chamber Orchestra — Oboist — Metropolitan Opera Orchestra — Substitute Principal Oboe — Chinese Youth Orchestra of New York — Woodwind Faculty — (2003-) — Weill Music Institute at Carnegie Hall — Teaching Artist — Ensemble ACJW (Academy - Carnegie Hall / Juilliard / Weill Music Institute) — Charter Member / Performer — New Jersey Symphony — Oboist — San Diego Symphony Summer Pop — Guest Principal Oboe — Ensemble ACJW (Academy - Carnegie Hall, Juilliard, Weill Music Institute) — Charter Member / Chamber Musician — Community — Chinese Youth Orchestra of New York — Woodwind Faculty

Timeline (vault-sourced)

Absorbed from the TAH #98 biography and tah-tables already mirrored on this page (no web; entities without vault pages named, not linked):

  • B.M. and M.M., The Juilliard School.
  • 2003– Woodwind faculty, Chinese Youth Orchestra of New York (華新青少年國樂團); later Teaching Artist, Weill Music Institute at Carnegie Hall.
  • Charter member of the Academy (a program of Carnegie Hall, The Juilliard School and the Weill Music Institute): performed chamber music extensively in Carnegie Hall with Ensemble ACJW.
  • Oboist / substitute principal: Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players, IRIS Chamber Orchestra (Memphis), Metropolitan Opera Orchestra (substitute principal on the 2011 Japan Tour), New Jersey Symphony; Guest Principal, San Diego Symphony Summer Pop.
  • Chamber music: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Family Concert, Argento Chamber Ensemble, Bargemusic, the Declassified.
  • Festivals: Marlboro, Aspen, National Repertory Orchestra, Pacific Music Festival Orchestra, Music Academy of the West.
  • Collaborated with recording artist Bjork on “Drawing Restraint 9”.
  • 2011 Recorded Sonata for oboe and piano for James Cohn’s album A Grecian Festival (MSR label).
  • Record published 2014-12-13 as TAH #98 ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/98-winnie-cheng-wen-lai-e8-b3-b4-e6-94-bf-e9-9b-af||TAH #98 record]]); source text truncated mid-teaching-list (see Record Trail gap note).

Family

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Record Trail (vault-sourced)

  • Cited as TAH #98, Winnie Cheng-Wen Lai 賴政雯, Woodwind in the TAH Who’s Who story corpus; record published 2014-12-13 ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/98-winnie-cheng-wen-lai-e8-b3-b4-e6-94-bf-e9-9b-af||TAH #98 record]]).
  • Source-text gap — the TAH biography snapshot on this page is truncated mid-sentence at her teaching list (“taught at chamber music conference at …”). Beyond 華新青少年國樂團 (Chinese Youth Orchestra of New York) woodwind faculty (2003–) and Weill Music Institute teaching artist, her teaching positions remain undocumented in this source set.

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