Leslie Tan, cellist of the internationally-renowned T'ang Quartet has performed, both as soloist and chamber musician, to critical acclaim in major venues and festivals worldwide.
These include the Tanglewood and Aspen Festivals in the USA; the Melbourne and Port Fairy Festivals in Australia; the New Zealand Festival; the Hong Kong Arts Festival; and the Prague-Vienna-Budapest Sommerakademie and Aarhuus Festivals in Europe. He has also been broadcasted by the BBC in London.
In 1980, after only 4 years of cello studies, Leslie Tan was awarded a scholarship to further his studies in London. A graduate of the Trinity College of Music and the Royal College of Music, London, Leslie Tan went on to the Tchaikovsky-Moscow State Conservatory as a graduate-assistant of Natalia Shahkovskaya. In the USA, he was a pupil of Paul Katz and Norman Fischer.
In a career that has spanned almost 20 years, from orchestral to chamber and solo performances, he is very much sought after as a pedagogue as well as a performer.
Leslie Tan has been on the faculty of the Boston University Tanglewood Institute since the year 2000, and in 2003, was appointed to the faculty of the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music.
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Updated on 01/06/2009
