About Max.

Taiwanese American violinist Max Tan has been praised as “eloquent” by the New York TImes and “warmly rhapsodic” by the Boston Globe.

Max Tan is a performer, educator, curator, and writer. He has been featured on WNYC/WQXR and Belgian radio Musiq3 and Canvas as a semifinalist in the 2019 Queen Elisabeth International Violin Competition. Appearing as a soloist with the Juilliard Orchestra, Orchestre Royal de Chambre de Wallonie, the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra amongst others, he has also performed solo recitals and chamber music throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia.

Max Tan is an alumnus of Harvard College with a concentration in Human Developmental and Regenerative Biology and a secondary in Music.

He continued his graduate studies at The Juilliard School, receiving his Master of Music in 2017 and Artist Diploma in 2019.

He is currently a Celia Ascher Doctoral Fellow at Juilliard where he is a music history teaching fellow to Dr. Elizabeth Weinfield. After serving as assistant to violin faculty Catherine Cho in Juilliard’s College Division, he now continues his assistant position in The Juilliard School Pre-College Division.