CONDUCTOR

JOSHUA TAN

A graduate of The Juilliard School and the Eastman School of Music, Joshua Tan was 2nd Prize winner of the Dimitri Mitropoulos International Competition and an awardee of numerous scholarships and awards, including the Young Artist Award - Singapore, Bruno Walter Memorial Foundation Award, NAC-Shell Scholarship, and the SSO/MOE Scholarship. He was also the first conductor to be presented the Charles Schiff prize from the Juilliard School. For an unprecedented two years running, his performances of The Bernstein’s Mass and the opera Don Pasquale were selected as the best classical concert of the year 2018 and 2019 by the Straits Times.

Joshua has conducted orchestras all around the world. These orchestras include the Mariinsky Theater Orchestra, Beethoven Bonn Orchestra, Urals Philharmonic Orchestra, Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo Metropolitan Orchestra, Sapporo Symphony Orchestra, Okayama Symphony Orchestra, Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, Taipei Symphony Orchestra, National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra, Evergreen Symphony Orchestra,  Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra, China Philharmonic Orchestra, Julliard Orchestra amongst others. He has studied with various eminent conductors—James DePreist, Charles Dutoit, David Zinman and Kurt Masur—and worked with many others, such as Michael Tilson Thomas, Ingo Metzmacher and George Manahan.

Known as a versatile conductor, Joshua is at home with symphonic, operatic and ballet works. His substantial repertoire for opera includes La Traviata, Rigoletto, Der Fliegende Holländer, Lohengrin, Carmen, Don Giovanni, Madama Butterfly, Così fan tutte, Turandot, among others. He has also served as cover conductor for Christoph Eschenbach and Lorin Maazel. He is also equally adept with music for ballet, film and multimedia. For the latter, his extensive work include Disney’s Fantasia and Pixar, all three instalments of BBC’s Blue Planet Series, West Side Story, Jurassic Park and more. 

Presently Principal Conductor of the Singapore National Youth Orchestra, he has served successful stints as Resident Conductor of the National Center for the Performing Arts (China) Orchestra, Principal Conductor of the Guiyang Symphony Orchestra and Associate Conductor of the SIngapore Symphony Orchestra. Season 21/22 sees return engagements with the Hong Kong Philharmonic, Singapore Ballet , as well as debuts with the Gunma Symphony, Melbourne Symphony  and a new opera premiere in Hong Kong amongst others.