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Taylor is an active performer as both a solo and collaborative pianist. In the summer of 2023, Taylor performed at the Chicago International Music Festival. In 2022, Taylor won first place in the Wonderlic Piano Competition and performed in a recital with other finalists at the Community Concerts at Second in Baltimore. She was also a finalist in the Yale Gordon Competition at the Peabody Institute. Active abroad, Taylor performed in Italy as a solo pianist as part of the 2022 Amalfi Coast Festival. In 2020, Taylor closed off the 2019-20 season of the Glissando concert series with a virtual, live-streamed solo concert. In 2019, Taylor won 2nd place in the Boston Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition. Later that year, Taylor was invited to play in Jordan Hall in New England Conservatory as part of a special From the Top radio show celebrating the 125th anniversary of Walnut Hill School for the Arts. Taylor also performed the Clara Schumann Piano Concerto in 2019 with the New England Conservatory Preparatory School's Youth Philharmonic Orchestra in Jordan Hall as part of the Salute to Clara Schumann on her Bicentennial.

Since beginning in-person studies at Peabody in 2021, Taylor has been an active collaborative pianist. She regularly works with both vocalists and instrumentalists in her role as a conservatory accompanist at Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University. For the 2023-24 academic year, she was invited to work with Prof. Elizabeth Bishop’s vocal studio in their weekly studio classes. 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 Jordan Hall in New England Conservatory as well as Griswold Hall and Cohen-Davison Theatre in Peabody Institute.

Taylor has always been interested in using music to help others through community outreach. She is currently a Musician-in-Residence at Edenwald Senior Living Community where she provides 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 recently received the Launch Grant from the Peabody Institute to fund her project, Peabody at the Shelter, which will program monthly concerts at a local shelter to bring a renewed sense of hope and community to the shelter. Her project was also designated as the Travers Grant with the support of the Travers Foundation. She 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, and the 2023-24 Carroll X. Skinner Skurzynski Endowed 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 HieYon Choi. She has studied piano with Michael Chertock, Nina Polonsky, Eric Street, Sergei Polusmiak, Natalia Harlap, and Boris Slutsky, and Yoshikazu Nagai. In 2020, she graduated from Walnut Hill School for the Arts where she studied with Sergey Schepkin. 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.