Leonard Tan is a trinational-based, Singaporean music director, conductor, tubist, violinist, and music educator at scholastic, collegiate, conservatory, and professional levels Tan was awarded the National Institute of Education-Nanyang Technological University Overseas Graduate Scholarship to pursue a PhD in music education and conducting at the Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University Bloomington. His primary conducting mentors at the Jacobs School of Music were David Effron, Arthur Fagen, and Stephen Pratt, while his primary music education mentor was Estelle Jorgensen. In 2013, he was appointed Assistant Professor of Music at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University. He is also the Principal Conductor of the Singapore National Youth Orchestra and Music Director of the Philharmonic Winds. In 2005, he had his first son, in 2007, he had his first daughter, in 2015, he had his second daughter.
Tan's numerous appointments include Conductor of the Singapore National Youth Orchestra, Singapore National Youth Sinfonia, and National University of Singapore Wind Symphony. In addition to his conducting engagements, Tan has served as music teacher at the NUS High School of Math and Science, where he taught music theory and history, music theory teacher at the Singapore Armed Forces Bands, lecturer in conducting at the LASALLE College of the Arts and lecturer in band training and direction at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts. He has presented lectures / workshops at the University of Hawaii, University of Kansas, University of the Pacific, Indiana University, and Nanjing University of the Arts. Tan has conducted Singapore Symphony Orchestra musicians in a Singapore-Japan Composers Exchange Concert, Singapore National Youth Orchestra musicians in the "Ong Teng Cheong Concert," as well as several performances with the Philharmonic Winds. His conducting repertoire ranges from early classics to such twentieth-century works as Stravinsky'sThe Soldier's Tale, and music by Singaporean composers Leong Yoon Pin, Goh Toh Chai, and Kelly Tang. In a production of Puccini's opera Madama Butterfly, he worked with an international cast, choir, and orchestra. As a tubist, Tan has performed with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Singapore Opera Orchestra, Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, Desford Colliery Band, Singapore Stompers, Singapore Armed Forces Tuba Quartet and the Regal Brass Quintet. As soloist, he has performed concertos by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Edward Gregson, Derek Bourgeois, and music for tuba and electronic tape by Walter B. Ross. He conducts brass and tuba clinics and coaches the Singapore National Youth Orchestra Brass Ensemble.
A Comparative Analysis of Hindemith's and Persichetti's Band Symphonies From a Neoclassical Perspective, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University
