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Anthony Tan / About This Artist

Artist Details and Stats:

Hometown: Montreal, QC, CA

Website: www.anthonytanmusic.cpm

Genre: Classical

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Classical charts for Montreal, QC, CA
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Biography:

Anthony Tan's music has been performed by Ensemble Cairn (France), L’Orchestre de la Francophonie Canadienne (Canada), Ensemble Moderne Academie (Germany), and the Rubbing Stone Ensemble (Canada). Tan has received awards from the Hamburg Klangwerktage, and the Gold medal from the Royal Conservatory of Music (Toronto). He has attended the National Arts Centre Composer's Program and the Academie Internationale de Composition du Blanc-Mesnil. Also involved with music for contemporary dance, Tan has written for the Merce Cunningham School (New York), Tangente (Montreal), and Ephemeral Industry (Calgary). He is currently pursuing his PhD in composition at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.

Press:

“Quixotic by Calgary's Anthony Tan is said to be based on the a portion of the genome of certain music-loving laboratory mice. It's hard to say what the mice would think of this music, but it is a fascinating piece. ”
Richard Todd - Ottawa Citizen