HAINU TAN
Tan will receive a $500 award, and her work for percussion and clarinet, “Hunting Fireflies,” will receive its world premiere in the 2012 Charles E. Gamper Festival of Contemporary Music concert to be held on the last weekend of July.
Tan has received awards and honors from many organizations, including the 2010 ASCAP Commission Competition, the 2009 San Francisco International Center for the Arts Composition Competition, the 2009 Earplay International Composers Competition and the 23rd annual California State University Statewide Research Competition.
Her works have been performed at many festivals, including Accent10 New Music Festival at Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, Bowdoin International Music Festival, California Summer Music Festival, Freie Universität Berlin International Summer Composition Conference, Nevada Encounters of New Music Festival, National Association of Composers USA (NACUSA), The Cortona Sessions for New Music in Italy, and at other venues in North America, Europe and Asia.
Tan holds a master of music degree from the New England Conservatory in Boston and a bachelor of arts degree from the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing.
She studied at the Bowdoin International Music Festival in 2006 and 2008-2010 under Samuel Adler of The Juilliard School. She has taught music composition, music theory, and world music at the University of Missouri- Kansas City and California State University, Los Angeles, and is affiliated with the American Composers Forum, the American Music Center and the NACUSA.
The 2012 Gamper Festival will take place July 26, 28 and 29 at Studzinski Recital Hall at Bowdoin College. Composers slated for performance include Samuel Adler, Derek Bermel, Richard Francis, Zhao Jiping, Elliott Schwartz, and the festival’s top student composers.
The Bowdoin International Music Festival’s annual student composition competition is announced each year in early winter, and is funded by an anonymous grant. It is open to all students younger than 35 years old. Entries are judged anonymously by the festival’s composition and instrumental faculty.
For more information, visit www.bowdoinfestival.org.
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