CHAN TZE LAW

Singaporean conductor Chan Tze Law serves as music director of Singapore's Metropolitan Festival Orchestra (MFO) and the award-winning Orchestra of the Music Makers (OMM).

Chan has appeared at major European music festivals and led orchestras and soloists throughout China and the Asia Pacific region. His performances of Mahler's 8th Symphony with OMM was named "Best Concert of 2015" by Singapore's Sunday Times, while his Sing50 concerts with Lang Lang and MFO celebrating Singapore's Golden Jubilee received widespread critical acclaim.

In 2020, he conducted OMM and an international star-studded cast at the Esplanade Theatres on the Bay in Die Walküre, Singapore's first-ever production of an opera from Wagner's Ring cycle. Opera (UK) proclaimed that Chan "elicited a multitude of expressive nuances and drew immense power without force from his musicians."

As Associate Professor and founding faculty member of the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music at the National University of Singapore, Chan serves as Vice Dean and lectures in conducting and music leadership. He also oversees the university's Center for the Arts in his role as Vice Dean of Students and is the architect of NUS 'Arts for All,' an innovative framework ensuring arts access for all university students. Internationally, Chan has served as visiting professor at Mahidol University College of Music in Thailand and was the founding chief conductor of the Australian International Summer Orchestral Institute. He has led conducting masterclasses at prestigious institutions including the Peabody Institute (USA), Royal Academy of Music (UK), and Queensland Conservatorium (Australia). He has served on the selection committee of the Oxford Conducting Institute International Conducting Studies Conference and conducted at the Australian Youth Orchestra's National Music Camp in 2020 and 2022.

Chan made his Singapore conducting debut with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra in 2001. He has premiered and recorded numerous compositions by Singapore-based composers alongside major classical repertoire by Mahler, Bruckner, Wagner, and Elgar. His recordings are available on Spotify and Apple Music Classical and have been featured on Singapore Airlines' KrisWorld, Australia's ABC Classic FM, and the UK's BBC Radio 3.