JOSHUA TAN CONDUCTOR Second Prize winner of the 2008 Dimitri Mitropoulos InternationalCompetition, Singaporean conductor Joshua Tan’s rise to prominencehas been marked by successful debuts in Carnegie Hall, PhilharmonieBerlin, Mariinsky Hall, Bunkamura, Shanghai, Beijing and Taiwan. He was featured as the top Singaporean musical talent in 2009 (Lianhe Zaobao) and has won numerous awards and scholarships, including the Bruno Walter Memorial Foundation Award, NAC-Shell Scholarship, SSO/MOE Scholarship and the Charles Schiff ConductingPrize from The Juilliard School for outstanding achievement. In 2011, he received the Young Artist Award of Singapore. Tan has studied with leading conductors James DePreist, Charles Dutoit, David Zinman and Kurt Masur. He has conducted the Beethoven Bonn Orchestra, National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA) Orchestra, National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra and many more orchestras worldwide. In opera, Tan has conducted La traviata, Tosca, Rigoletto, Carmen, Don Giovanni, Manon Lescaut, Madama Butterfly, Turandot amongst others. He was also cover conductor for Christoph Eschenbach and Lorin Maazel. Adept at working with film/multimedia, Tan is a Disney-approved conductor and gave the Asian premiere of Fantasia. He has also conducted for the BBC’s Planet Earth Series. Tan is presently Associate Conductor of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra and Principal Conductor of the Singapore National Youth Orchestra. He was Resident Conductor, NCPA Orchestra from 2009 to 2012 and Principal Conductor, Guiyang Symphony Orchestra from 2013 to 2017. Highlights of the 2017/18 season include Giselle in Tokyo, L’elisir d’amore, Bernstein’s Mass and a performance of the complete West Side Story with film for the centenary in Singapore amongstothers. Overseeing a special initiative, Joshua is also Director for the Asia Virtuosi since 2017, an annual festival orchestra which comprises of leading professional orchestral musicians from different orchestras in Asia. Tan is a graduate of The Juilliard School and the Eastman School of Music (High Distinction).
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