Award-winning Singaporean trumpeter Erik Tan has performed a wide range of orchestral and chamber repertoire. He graduated at the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music and is a recipient of a full merit scholarship. In 2015, he received a scholarship grant from the Trailblazer Foundation and graduated with a Master of Music from the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music.​

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Professional groups that he has performed with include the Singapore Symphony, Macao Orchestra, Malaysia Philharmonic, Singapore National Youth Orchestra, Peabody Symphony, Yong Siew Toh Conservatory Orchestra, The Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra of the Music Makers, Penang Philharmonic, Mus’Art Wind Orchestra and the Singapore Armed Forces Central Band. Erik is also one of the five trumpet players in Asia to win an audition for the 2014 Asian Youth Orchestra Asia Tour.​

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He was under the tutelage of William Theis, co-principal trumpet of the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, and has also studied with Laurence Gargan, who was the principal trumpet of the Singapore Symphony. During his senior year at the conservatory, he was selected for an exchange program at the Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University, having the privilege to study with former-Canadian Brass member Joe Burgstaller as well as former-Baltimore Symphony member Mr. Edward Hoffman.​