Violinist Kia-Hui
Tan has performed as concerto soloist, recitalist
and chamber musician on five continents including at
London’s Barbican Hall and New York’s Carnegie
Weill Recital Hall. Described in The Strad as a “violinist
whose virtuosity was astonishing,” she has broadcast
live on radio, television and the internet, recorded
soundtracks for film and theater, and freelanced with
many orchestras in the UK and USA, often as concertmaster.
A keen advocate of new music, she has performed music
of more than 40 living composers and premiered over two
dozen solo and chamber works, some of which have been
released on CD.
Prior
to her appointment as Assistant Professor of Violin at
The Ohio State University School of Music in 2005, Tan
had served as faculty at Cornell University, University
of Toledo, The Cleveland Institute of Music, Cleveland
Music School Settlement, and the International Summer Music
Festival and School in Colombia. She frequently accepts
invitations to present master classes, adjudicate competitions/auditions,
and guest conduct youth/college orchestras. Continually
expanding her solo repertoire of approximately 200 works,
she particularly enjoys collaborating with composers and
presenting new or unjustly neglected masterpieces. Her
current research and performing interests include the complete
works of Eugene Ysaÿe and the vastly unexplored repertory
for unaccompanied solo violin.
Tan
studied piano, violin, music theory and composition from
an early age in her native country Singapore and earned
the Licentiate of the Royal Schools of Music (UK) diploma
at age fourteen. She was awarded scholarships to the Guildhall
School of Music and Drama (London, UK) and The Cleveland
Institute of Music, where she was conferred the Doctor
of Musical Arts degree in 2001. She has won numerous prizes
for violin, chamber music, new music and academic scholarship,
and attended various summer camps in the USA (Encore, Meadowmount
and Norfolk), UK (Britten-Pears/Aldeburgh and IMS/Prussia
Cove) and Japan (Pacific Music Festival). Her principal
teachers included David Takeno, David Updegraff and Stephen
Shipps.
To arrange
performances, master classes, workshops or adjudicating
competitions, please send
an email.
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Audio clips
featuring Kia-Hui Tan:
Brahms:
Violin Sonata No. 2 in A major, 3rd mvt. (2:42)
(OSU Debut Recital,
Sep. 26, 2005, Weigel Auditorium)
with Blaise Bryski, piano
Kodaly:
Duo for Violin and Cello (2:25)
(Faculty Chamber Recital, Feb. 27,
2006, Weigel Auditorium)
with William Conable, cello
Downloadable
pictures:
(Click
on any picture for a larger image)
Selected
Recent and Forthcoming Faculty Recitals (PDF files):
OSU
Debut Recital (Sep. 26, 2005)
Contemporary
American Masterpieces for Solo Violin (Feb. 27, 2006)
Violinist and Friends (Oct. 30, 2006)
Faculty Piano Trio (Nov. 27, 2006)
Hits from the Opera (Feb. 19, 2007)
