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.

Recent and upcoming collaborators include Ensemble Project Morph (Germany/Korea), Scapegoat (Canada/France), Thin Edge New Music Collective (Canada), Ilana Waniuk (Canada), Maruta Staravoitava (Germany), LUX:NM (Germany), No Hay Banda (Canada), Colin McAllister (USA), Quatuor Bozzini (Canada), Ensemble Experimental (Germany).

Recognition includes the 2021 Canada Council Jules Léger Prize in Chamber Music, the audience and jury prize from the ECM+ Generation 2014, the 2011 Giga-Hertz Förder Prize, and the International Competition for live-electronics of the Hamburg Klangwerktage. Residencies include Expermentalstudio des SWR (Freiburg, Germany), and the Leighton Artist Studios at the Banff Centre (Canada).



Tan holds a Ph.D. from McGill University, Montréal, Canada, the Meisterklasse (3. Zyklus) from the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber, Dresden, Germany, and was a fellow of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University (RI’17). He currently serves as Assistant Professor of Composition at the University of Victoria.