Joshua Kangming Tan studied music at the age of 6 and was later selected
to play the violin in the Singapore National Youth Orchestra. He graduated
from the Eastman School of Music in 2001 and returned to join the Singapore
Symphony Orchestra as a violinist.
In 2007, he was awarded a scholarship to study conducting at The Juilliard
School. In 2008, he won 2nd prize in the 2008 Dimitris
Mitropoulos International Competition.
He has since conducted the St. Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra,
Mariinsky Theater Orchestra, Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra,
Russiche Kammerphilharmonie, and the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra,
amongst others.
He is presently the Resident Conductor at the Beijing National Center for
Performing Arts.
