A violin prodigy, Tang was only four when she first started learning how to play the violin, and by age seven she had already started performing publicly. Tang, whose mother is a piano teacher, blew everyone away with her quick grasp of the notoriously difficult and temperamental instrument.
Tang Tee Khoon, artistic director of the TTK Grand Series concerts, and Singapore’s foremost chamber musician, was just nine when she gave her first concert. Then a tiny child with big glasses and a violin, she wowed the world with her prodigious talent. Yet despite having travelled the world and achieved global acclaim, for Tang, home is Singapore, where her heart and music remains. She sits down with Options to share her journey.
SINGAPORE (March27): Somewhere in the archives of several Singapore newspapers is a picture of Tang Tee Khoon, then nine years old, in a puffed-sleeves dress, with big glasses, a violin tucked under her chin, and a look of intense concentration on her petite, serious face. “Tang Tee Khoon, 9, wins award for Best Performer”, read the headline.
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