TAN, Madeleine

Madeleine Tan is a Singapore-based composer, arranger, and educator whose work spans film, theatre, dance, and multimedia. After an earlier career in banking, she pursued graduate studies at New York University, earning a master's degree in Music Theory and Composition with a concentration in Scoring for Film and Multimedia and receiving awards for excellence in graduate composition and film music. Her compositions combine contemporary and orchestral approaches, with particular attention to melody, instrumentation, and vocal writing. Tan has composed for New York's Young Dancemakers Company and Second Avenue Dance Company, Singapore's Frontier Danceland, and numerous productions by Singapore Repertory Theatre. Her works include the dance scores The Rippled Effect and Unlock, the theatrical production Nursery Crimes, for which she served as composer and music director, and the multimedia work I Am Fluent in Silence (2020).