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| Melvyn Tan |
| GEN |
| Born | |
| Singapore | |
| Studies | |
| London | |
| Highlights | |
| Groundbreaking Beethoven recordings (EMI') | Song recitals with A. Kirchschläger, A.S. Otter, O.Bär, A. Auger | complete cycles Beethoven, Schubert, Mozart worldwide | |
| Distinction | |
| Fellow of the Royal College of Music, London | |
| Recordings | |
| Virgin Classics, EMI, Deutsche Grammophon, RCA Victor, Harmonia Mundi, BBC, Deux-Elles | |
| Short bio | |
| Born in Singapore and resident in the UK since 1978, Melvyn Tan has distinguished himself as a highly versatile international keyboard artist. He began his studies at the Yehudi Menuhin School and thereafter at the Royal College of Music. Having studied piano with Marcel Ciampi, Nadia Boulanger and Vlado Perlemuter he turned his searching attentions first to the harpsichord and then the fortepiano, establishing a formidable world-wide reputation and making numerous ground-breaking recordings as an exclusive EMI artist including the complete Beethoven Concerti with Sir Roger Norrington. Since returning to the modern piano in 1996, Melvyn has performed in most major festivals and concert halls throughout the world including complete cycles of Beethoven Sonatas and Concerti, Mozart Sonatas, Debussy and Chopin Preludes, Messiaen’s Vingt Regards and the Beethoven Concerti. His chamber music and Lieder collaborations are numerous and include Steven Isserlis, Anne-Sophie von Otter, the Škampa Quartet and fellow pianist, Ronald Brautigam. Highlights of this season include a four-concert tour to South Africa, performances with the Wiener Akademie at Vienna’s Musikverein and the London Philharmonic Orchestra at London’s Royal Festival Hall, recitals with fellow pianist Ronald Brautigam at Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw and the Sage Gateshead, appearances with the Skampa Quartet at London’s Wigmore Hall and Edinburgh’s International Festival as well as solo recitals at the Wigmore Hall and Spitalfields Festival. This season also sees the release of two discs on the newly launched London Chamber Orchestra Live label – Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 12 in October 2009 and Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in January 2010, recorded live with the London Chamber Orchestra under their Music Director and Principal Conductor Christopher Warren-Green. In 2011 two concerts marked his triumphant comeback to Singapore. 2011/2012 If you wish to revise this biography, please contact Mark Stephan Buhl Artists Management. Please use material of the current season only. | |
