With wonderful professors and great friends. вЂњI am very lucky to be in an amazing school like SimonвЂ™s Rock, and to collaborate Knowledge and adherence to curiosity signified to Patty that вЂњAdrian belongs here.вЂќ His first day in the lab, Patty recognized that Adrian was ready to engage. вЂњOurД¬onversations are some of the things I look most forward to during college.вЂќ Super helpfulвЂќ and she really has a knack for putting things into perspective. Patty has provided Adrian the best advice. When he wasnвЂ™t doing homework or practicing his music, Adrian would stop Reflecting on his future as he heads back to high school as a sophomore, Raymond is keenly focused on academics and excelling at his music.Adrian studied chemistry his first year and loved his lab with Professor Patricia Dooley, who is now his academicДЄdvisor. Her son has otherВ interests in addition toВ musicВ and they want to leave doors open.

'I guess I will support whatever he chooses to do, as long as he is aware of the challenges he will face, and ready for the lifestyle he will live,' Wang said.ДЇor now, the familyВ hasn'tВ seriously discussed the subject, Wang said.

His mother is fully supportive of a career in or out of music While he is traveling for his concerts, he is also looking at schools such as Harvard University andВ Massachusetts Institute of Technology for college admission. Life as an artist can be difficult, Raymond fully realizes. Everyone should have the privilege to have access toВ great music, Raymond said.Дespite his early success as a musician, Raymond does not know whether he wants to pursue it as a career. That's where he regularly gives outreachВ performances at nursing homes, cancer centers andВ fundraising concerts for childrenвЂ™sВ hospitals. He enjoysВ sharing his passion for musicВ with the community, havingВ initiated theВ вЂњMusic for Love'В project. He studies violin withВ Nancy HuntВ and he is the pianist of the Hochstein Capriccio Scholarship Piano Trio, formerВ concertmaster of the Hochstein Youth Symphony Orchestra, and co-concertmaster of his schoolВ orchestra. Raymond's love of music expands to chamber music and violin as well. Earlier this summer, Raymond won theВ concerto competition of the Walnut Hill Music Festival andВ had his Boston debut performing theВ full Grieg Piano concerto with the Mercury Orchestra. Wang is proud of her son's accolades and works her schedule around his travels, most recently traveling this summer to Chicago for a performance. Raymond was alsoВ featured on NPRвЂ™s 'From the Top' show taped at Eastman Kodak HallВ and recently was selected as one of the Lang Lang International Music Foundation's YoungВ Scholars, serving as an ambassador for promoting classicalВ music and music education. Since making his orchestral debut with the Ashdod Symphony in Perugia,В Italy, at age 11, he has soloed with several orchestrasВ such as GeneseeВ Symphony, Greater Buffalo Youth Symphony,В Hochstein Youth Symphony, and MercuryВ Orchestra of Boston.

'IВ don'tВ really belong to aВ clique,' he said. He has his core group of friends at school that share his interest in math and music and is on the school's math team and orchestra. 'Sharing music is my passion,' said Raymond, who will be entering 10th grade at Pittsford Sutherland High School. Raymond was always a self-starter, his mother said. He has been a state competition medalist onВ his school science Olympiad team forВ the past threeВ years as well. Aside from music, RaymondВ is an accomplishedВ вЂњmathlete.вЂќВ He is the first-place winner of theВ 2012 Mathnasium National TriMathlon, the New York State Champion of the MathCounts competitions in 2013 toВ 2015 and a two-time USA Junior Mathematical Olympiad qualifier.

4 yr old piano prodigy