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Yifei Chen

Yifei Chen is a sophomore at West Windsor Plainsboro High School North. He has been practicing the piano for seven years and has been studying piano with Yan Mei (Jennifer) Bao of East Brunswick. During the four years Yifei competed in the annual New Jersey Music Teachers Association’s (NJMTA) competitions, he won the Annual Audition High Honors Award four times. In addition, Yifei won third-place two times in NJMTA’s Young Artists Piano Competition and received honorable mention two other years. Also, Yifei was a winner in the Cecilian Annual Young Artist Piano Competition and performed in Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York. Yifei passed the seventh grade Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music Examination with distinction and is now seeking to receive the Associated Board's DipABRSM diploma for musical performance. His other interests include mathematics, computers and sports. Yifei is a member of the West Windsor Plainsboro cross-country team.

Yifei Chen was a winner in the 2002 Fourth Annual Andrew De Grado Piano Competition in the soloist category with his performance of the Etude in D flat Major No. 3, Un sospiro by Liszt.