MARGARET LENG TAN – Guest Pianist

Pianist Margaret Leng Tan’s eleven-year collaboration with John Cage, from 1981 until his death, established her as one of his pre-eminent interpreters. She was the featured performer in a tribute to Cage’s memory at the 45th Venice Biennale. Her Cage recordings are critically regarded as definitive performances and she performs Cage’s music in the Public Broadcasting System’s American Masters films on John Cage and Jasper Johns. She is the editor for Volume 4 of Cage’s piano music published by C.F. Peters. In 2006, she gave the premiere of his newly discovered Chess Pieces that she also prepared for publication. Tan’s DVD of Cage’s Sonatas and Interludes (mode 158) was selected as a “Desert Island Choice” by Gramophone. During this Cage centenary season Tan will honor her mentor in celebrations in the US, Eastern and Western Europe, and Central America.

To learn more about Margaret Leng Tan’s career as the world’s first toy piano virtuoso, visit www.margaretlengtan.com