b'Guest ArtistAcclaimed for the wit, tonal contrast and poetry of his playing, pianist MELVYN TAN established his international reputation with pioneering performances on the fortepiano. He continues to cast fresh light on a large repertoire from Bach, Scarlatti and Rameau to Liszt, Debussy, Ravel, Stravinsky, Messiaen and John Cage inspired by his encounters with teachers Nadia Boulanger, Vlado Perlemuter and Marcel Ciampi at the Yehudi Menuhin School. He has also premiered a whole range of contemporary works by Kevin Volans, Jonathan Dove, Judith Weir, and Julian Grant.Tans work as recitalist, chamber musician, and concerto soloist has been heard at many of the worlds leading concert halls from Tokyo to Amsterdam, Vienna to London, New York to Salzburg, San Francisco to Hong Kong, Sydney to Rejkjavik.His concerto partners have included the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, Salzburgs Camerata and Mozarteum orchestras, Melbourne Symphony, the Australian Chamber Orchestra, the Singapore Symphony, the Bruckner Orchestra of Linz, and the London Chamber Orchestra.Many have discovered his work through his exceptionally large and wide-ranging discography, complete with ground-breaking recordings of Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert for EMI Classics; Weber, Czerny, Liszt, Debussy and Ravel on the Archiv, Deux-Elles, Harmonia Mundi, NMC, Onyx and Virgin Classics labels.Melvyn Tan is particularly happy to be associated with Buskaid, visiting the school in Soweto several times and performing with the group in Johannesburg.buskaid.org.za/ 9'