Born in 1965, Tan Chan Boon is one of Singapore's established composers. His works have been commissioned and performed widely in Taiwan, Japan, China, Southeast Asia, Ukraine, France, Germany, USA and Singapore. French-trained Tan started composing at 12. His teachers include French composers Jacques Castérède and Michel Merlet, and Singapore pioneer composer, Leong Yoon Pin.
President of the Gustav Mahler and the Anton Bruckner Societies in Singapore which he founded with friends in 1995 and 1996 respectively, Tan is also active in the research and promotion of the music of Bruckner and Mahler. He has conducted more than 100 workshops and talks on the works of Beethoven, Brahms, Bruckner and Mahler in Paris, Malaysia and Singapore.