harpsichord / baroque dance

Dr. Tan Qin Ying's recent concerto appearance with City Music lauded her as "an excellent soloist, a compelling performer who is equally comfortable handling long strings of notes... and singing through emotive melodies with her instrument." This season's performances included appearances with City Music, Apollo's Fire, Piano Cleveland, ORMACO Inc., the Performing Arts Series at the Cleveland Museum of Art, SEA Music Academy, and Affekt. Dr. Tan co-directs up-and-coming ensemble Affekt with baroque violinist, Guillermo Salas Suárez, an ensemble which focuses on early music accessibility, education and diversity across Cleveland.

Dr. Tan is also known to be a "a natural and knowledgeable speaker who helped to bring perspective to the program" (Cleveland Classical). A firm believer of story-telling through music, Tan's influences steep from a pool of diverse music which includes baroque French court dance, Indonesian gamelan, the Chinese guzheng, as well as community song and dance. Born in Singapore, Dr. Tan moved to the United States in 2008 and graduated from Cleveland Institute of Music with a doctorate in harpsichord performance. Currently, Dr. Tan works at Case Western University and Notre Dame College as keyboard and music history faculty. Dr. Tan also serves as music director at Heights Christian Church and Forest Hills Presbyterian Church in Shaker Heights and Cleveland Heights in Ohio and is currently on the Northeast Ohio Music Teachers' Association's board as the vice-president.