Shoni Oey lives in Princeton Junction and attends sixth grade at West Windsor-Plainsboro Community Middle School. She studies piano with Ingrid Clarfield of Princeton and violin with Ann Setzer. Shoni is the recipient of various awards and honors. In 1999, Shoni won First Prize in the Chiang Wen-Yeh International Piano Competition, and First Prize in the New Jersey Music Teachers’ Association (NJMTA) piano concerto competition. In addition, Shoni has been awarded First Prizes and High Honors at the NJMTA’s piano and violin competitions. In 2001, she played piano and violin in the Honors Recitals of the Chinese American Cultural Association Young Artists’ Competition and also received Honors in the Korean American Young Musicians Competition in New York. Shoni’s interests and hobbies include science, crafts, skating, reading and writing.

Shoni Oey was a winner in the 2002 Fourth Annual Andrew De Grado Piano Competition in the soloist category with her performance of the Ballade by Debussy.