Anthony Tan

"Working at the intersections of concert composition, electronic music, and piano improvisation Anthony Tan (Canada) combines instrumental practice with signal processing, synthesized models, sampling, and field recording, resulting in music that explores the identity of sound, and the fluidity of genre. As a music researcher his interests include post-acousmatics, timbre theory, music perception, composer-performer paradigms, and inclusive pedagogy.

Tan has presented his music at the Warsaw Autumn Festival (Poland), Kontraklang (Germany), Tonlagen (Hellerau, Germany), Imatronic (ZKM, Germany), SMC Sound and Music Computing Conference (2014, Sweden), 2013 NYC electroacoustic festival (USA), ICMC - International Computer Music Conference (2009 Montreal, and 2010 New York), Matrix '10, '11, and ‘15 at the SWR Experimentalstudio (Germany), Domain Forget (Quebec), the IRCAM Computer Music workshops at Centre Acanthes (France), the National Arts Centre Composer's Program (Canada).

Recent and upcoming collaborators include Ilana Waniuk (Canada), Maruta Staravoitava (Germany), Jane Chan (Canada), Scapegoat (Canada/Austria), LUX:NM (Germany), No Hay Banda (Canada), Colin McAllister (USA), Quatuor Bozzini (Canada), Rei Nakamura (Germany), Ensemble Recherche (Germany), Ensemble Experimental (Germany), Architek Percussion (Canada), Ensemble Contemporaine de Montréal (Canada), Turning Point Ensemble (Canada), and New Music Concerts Ensemble (Canada). He has been commissioned by Dresden Philharmonie, Ensemble Contemporaine de Montréal, Les Cris de Paris, Ensemble Cairn, L’Orchestre de la Francophonie Canadienne, Ensemble Moderne Academie, Le Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, the New Orford String Quartet, Toca Loca, New Music Concerts, and the Rubbing Stone Ensemble. Also involved with music for contemporary dance, he has written for the Merce Cunningham School (USA), Tangente (Canada), and Ephemeral Industry (Canada) and the Bravo!FACT (Canada) dance movie commissions.

Residencies include Expermentalstudio des SWR (Freiburg, Germany), and the Banff Leighton Studios at the Banff Centre (Canada). Recognition includes a 2023 Juno nomination for classical composition of the year, the 2021 Canada Council Jules Léger Prize in Chamber Music, the audience and jury prize from the ECM+ Generation 2014 tour, the 2011 Giga-Hertz Förder Prize, the International Competition for live-electronics of the Hamburg Klangwerktage, and the Gold Medal in piano performance from the Royal Conservatory of Music.

Tan completed his Ph.D. from McGill University, Montréal, Canada under the supervision of John Rea and Stephen McAdams, and the Meisterklasse (3. Zyklus) from the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber, Dresden, Germany with Mark Andre and Franz Martin Olbrisch. He was a fellow of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University (RI’17). He previously served as Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs (USA), and is currently Assistant Professor of Composition at the University of Victoria (Canada)."

Biography taken from https://www.anthonytanmusic.com.