From Malaysia, Yu Hang Tan (he/him) is a DMA candidate in Choral Music from the University of Southern California (USC). Before moving to Los Angeles, Yu Hang was an active member of the Atlantic Canada choral scene, where he directed the St. Augustine’s Choir and St. John’s Gospel Choir; co-directed the Memorial University of Newfoundland Choirs, Atlantic Boychoir, and Cantus Vocum Chamber Choir. Performing, working, and presenting nationally and abroad, Yu Hang is an alumnus of the 2022 EuroChoir and the 2018 and 2020 World Youth Choir, past project manager of the International Federation for Choral Music’s (IFCM) Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Countries’ Youth Choir, and has presented his research on Southeast Asian choral music at major conferences and universities such as the 2022 World Choral Expo, 2022 Western Division ACDA, and Princeton University.

In the past three years, Yu Hang was the lead conductor of the USC Thornton Oriana Choir. In spring of 2022, he led Oriana to the 2022 World Choral Festival and 2022 Penabur International Choir Festival and achieved gold rankings at both festivals. In January 2022, Yu Hang published his arrangement of Ikan Kekek and the arrangement was chosen by JW Pepper as an Editors’ Choice and one of the five featured treble works in California Choral Directors’ Association’s Cantate Magazine.

Yu Hang is currently an adjunct faculty at the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona teaching Choral Arranging and co-artistic director of Suara, a choir dedicated to choral music from Southeast Asia hosted by the USC Thornton Department of Choral and Sacred Music, and music director of the Ebell of Los Angeles Chorale. In April 2023, Yu Hang will present at the World Symposium on Choral Music in Istanbul, Turkey.