Tzu Kuang Tan is a first-year Butler Studio artist from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. For HGO’s 2025-26 season, he serves as an Assistant Coach for Porgy and Bess, Silent Night, the Butler Studio production of Of Mice and Men, and Messiah. In the summer of 2025, Tan served as a Young Artist with the Merola Opera Program. There, he played and coached Rossini’s Count Ory, served as one of the pianists for the “Grand Night of Singing – An American Song Fest,” and served as a rehearsal pianist for the Schwabacher Summer Concert. Performance highlights include a 2023 song recital with Joanne Evans at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, after being named winner of the Marilyn Horne Song Competition in 2022. Tan was a 2024 participant in Renée Fleming’s Carnegie Hall Song Studio, during which he made his Carnegie Hall debut in Zankel Hall with Ruby Dibble. In addition to appearing on the concert stage, Tan coaches and works as a rehearsal pianist. He served the Butler Opera Center at UT Austin for productions of La bohème, Tan Dun’s Tea: A Mirror of Soul, Queen of Spades, La traviata, L’enfant et les sortilèges, John Corigliano’s The Ghosts of Versailles, and The Marriage of Figaro. Tan pursued a Doctoral of Musical Arts degree at UT Austin. He holds degrees from the University of Michigan and the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory in Singapore.