Joshua Tan

Conductor Joshua Tan is a fast-rising figure in East Asia, Australia, and the West, where he was partly trained. He is the principal conductor of the Singapore Youth Orchestra and associate conductor of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra. Tan was born in Singapore. He used his full name, Joshua Kangming Tan, at the beginning of his career but later dropped the middle name. Tan took up the violin at age six, not out of any enthusiasm for the instrument but because his father had picked it. For some years, he continued with violin lessons purely out of family obligation, but when...