Tan Dun | Conducting

As a conductor of innovative programs around the world, Tan Dun has led the China tours of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and Japan’s NHK Symphony Orchestra. His upcoming season includes leading the NDR Radiophilharmonie in a five-city tour in Germany, as well as engagements with the London Symphony Orchestra and at the Venice Biennale. As Honorary Artistic Director of the China National Symphony Orchestra, Tan Dun will conduct its upcoming United States tour. He will also conduct the National Orchestra of Lyon in their tour to China.

Tan Dun was Creative Chair of the Philadelphia Orchestra’s 2014 China Tour as well as Honorary Guest Conductor of the Netherlands Symphony Orchestra.

In performance, the composer/conductor has collaborated with such artists as Yo-Yo Ma, Plácido Domingo, Sharon Isbin, Wu Man, Lang Lang, Joan La Barbara, Anssi Karttunen , and the Kronos Quartet.

My icons are Mahler and Bernstein. I believe conducting is part of my spiritual life. I learned my conducting through composing and learned composing through my conducting. That is why music to me is such a dramatic journey and colorful dream in action and mind.

My icons are Mahler and Bernstein. I believe conducting is part of my spiritual life. I learned my conducting through composing and learned composing through my conducting. That is why music to me is such a dramatic journey and colorful dream in action and mind.

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