Michael (Qin Tai) Tan, is an emerging Canadian composer. He is mostly self-taught, but has studied with some exceptional teachers such as Dr. Kelly-Marie Murphy, Dr. Kevin Lau, Dr. Robert Rival, and more recently with Elizabeth Raum as part of the Scarborough Philharmonic Orchestra’s New Generation Composers’ Program 2024-2025. He studied piano performance to grade 10 at the Royal Conservatory of Music, and had several masterclasses in piano with the late Mary Mackey who was a graduate of the Juilliard School of Music. His string quartet Fragments Over a Pale Sea was professionally performed by members of the National Arts Center (NAC) orchestra, as part of Chamberfest held at the University of Ottawa. Another string quartet Çal, oyna also received an international prize at the NMGCS IV International Composition Competition, and was published in the USA. Currently, he is completing his master’s degree in Health Science at the University of Ottawa, and his research focuses on using zebrafish as a model for straited muscle laminopathies (2025).
