Tan Lihua Tan Lihua

Tan Lihua is an excellent conductor active in today's music circle of China. He is Vice Chairman of the Chinese Musicians Association, Director of the Performing Arts Committee under the Chinese Musicians Association, Chairman of Beijing Musicians Association, Deputy Director of the Artistic Advisory Committee of China National Centre for the Performing Arts, as well as Music Director and Principal Conductor of Beijing Symphony Orchestra. He has successful collaborations with international orchestras as London Philharmonic, Royal Philharmonic, Israel Philharmonic, etc., and domestic major orchestras like China National Symphony, China Philharmonic, Shanghai Symphony and more. In the 2000-2001 season, Tan served as resident conductor of the Russian State Symphony Orchestra.

Tan has conducted a wide variety of symphonic works, which were composed in different times and diversified in style and regional features, including the debut of more than 100 new works by Chinese composers.

His leading the European concert tour of the BSO in 2001, 2003, 2006 and 2009 turned out to be a great success and caused a sensation, which were highly reported by Augsburg Daily, Boblingen Post, Wolfsburg Times, Hessen Courier, and other international media. Since 1997, Tan has been participated in preparing and planning of Beijing New Year's Concert, and serving as music consultant and conductor.

As one of the most active and influential conductors in China, Tan has conducted nearly 1,000 concerts in major cities across the country. Since 2007 Tan and the BSO has released four records worldwide (EMI). In July 2008, the Beijing Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Tan, completed the recording project of games anthems and national anthems for the 29th Beijing Olympic Games, a project which includes 212 works.