Michael (Qin Tai) Tan is an award-winning emerging composer based in Canada, who started composing seriously at the end of 2023. His string quartet Çal, oyna received an international prize (2024) at the NMGCS IV International Composition Competition, and was published in the USA. Another string quartet Fragments Over a Pale Sea was professionally performed by members of the Ironwood Quartet, as part of Chamberfest, in Canada (2024).
He has also worked with the Scarborough Philharmonic Orchestra (SPO) as a New Generation Composer, and his clarinet quintet The White Woods was workshopped at the
Canadian Music Center in Toronto (2025). This work was additionally chosen by the SPO for a concert premiere in early 2026.
He is mostly self-taught, and he is currently completing his master’s degree in health sciences at the University of Ottawa (2025). His research focuses on using zebrafish as a model for striated muscle laminopathies.
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