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Composer Anthony Tan (Canada) intersects notated instrumental practice with signal processing, synthesized models, sampling, and field recording, resulting in music that explores the identity of sound, post-acousmatics, and the fluidity of genre. Tan has presented his music at the Warsaw Autumn Festival (Poland), Kontraklang (Germany), Tonlagen (Hellerau, Germany), Imatronic (ZKM, Germany), SMC Sound and Music Computing Conference (2014, Sweden), ICMC - International Computer Music Conference (2009 Montreal, and 2010 New York), Matrix '10, '11, and ‘15 at the SWR Experimentalstudio (Germany).Recent and upcoming collaborators include Ilana Waniuk (Canada), Maruta Staravoitava (Germany), Jane Chan (Canada), Scapegoat (Canada/Austria), LUX:NM (Germany), No Hay Banda (Canada), Colin McAllister (USA), Quatuor Bozzini (Canada), Ensemble Experimental (Germany), Architek Percussion (Canada), Ensemble Contemporaine de Montréal (Canada), and Turning Point Ensemble (Canada).Residencies include Expermentalstudio des SWR (Freiburg, Germany), and the Banff Leighton Studios at the Banff Centre (Canada). Awards include the audience and jury prize from the ECM+ Generation 2014 tour, the 2011 Giga-Hertz Förder Prize, and the International Competition for live-electronics of the Hamburg Klangwerktage.Tan holds a Ph.D. from McGill University, Montréal, Canada, the Meisterklasse from the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber, Dresden, Germany, a B.Mus. from the University of Calgary, and was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University (RI’17). He previously served as Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs (USA) and is currently Assistant Professor of Composition at the University of Victoria (Canada).

Listed skills include Composition, Music Theory, Music, Sound Design, and 16 others.

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  Assistant Professor

  University Of Victoria

  Canada