President: Tian Tian Lan
Tian Tian began learning piano at the age of four, and completed his Diploma of Music in Piano Performance with Glenn Riddle at the University of Melbourne in 2020. He has performed across Australia and internationally, with his recitals broadcasted on 3MBS and 4MBS radio. Tian Tian has appeared as soloist with several orchestras, having performed Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto, as well as Rachmaninoff’s Third Piano Concerto with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra and in three performances across Spain. He was the first medical student to perform as soloist with the Australian Medical Students’ Orchestra, performing Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5 in 2022.
Tian Tian has been awarded prizes for best recital, best performance of a work by Franz Liszt, and best performance of a Prelude and Fugue at the 2021-2022 Lev Vlassenko Piano Competition. He has also been awarded first prize in the Margaret Schofield Chopin Award, multiple prizes in the Melbourne Recital Centre Bach Competition, Kault Prize for most outstanding Piano Diploma Candidate (AMEB), and numerous first prizes in local piano competitions. Tian Tian is a keen chamber musician, having performed the piano trios of Rachmaninoff, Shostakovich, Smetana, and Strauss. In 2018, he appeared with Wilma Smith and Friends in Shostakovich’s Piano Quintet, and Brahms’ Horn Trio in E Flat along with international artists.
Tian Tian is also an experienced violinist, completing his LMusA in 2014 with Leonid Zeyde, and touring USA, UK and Europe as Concertmaster of the SCSO. He is an active first violinist and violist in various community, university and doctors’ orchestras. Tian Tian is a final year medical student at the University of Melbourne.
Conductor: Yuki Goh
Yuki graduated from the Bachelor of Music, majoring in Composition, at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music in 2023 and is currently undertaking Honours studies. He is currently the conductor of the Old Scotch Symphony Orchestra (OSSO), has been the student conductor of the Melbourne University Biomedicine Students’ Orchestra (MUBSO) since 2021, as well as the Assistant Conductor of the Heidelberg Symphony Orchestra since 2022.
Yuki’s musical journey began in classical instrumental performance, having attained proficiency in piano, viola, and harp. He commenced his studies in orchestral conducting in 2019 under the tutelage of Dr John Ferguson. That same year, he made his debut at a combined schools orchestra charity concert, a concert organised by students which raised over $4000 for the Skyline Foundation. He has been involved in conducting engagements with other student orchestras ever since. His other mentors include Nicholas Bochner and Christopher Kopke.
As a composition student at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, Yuki has studied under the tutelage of Melody Eötvös, Miriama Young, Timothy Dargaville, and Christine McCombe. Notable premieres of his works include that of his orchestral piece After Rain Comes the Rainbow, performed by the Melbourne University Biomedicine Students’ Orchestra in 2022, and his percussion piece Time Stop, performed by the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music Percussion Ensemble under the direction of Brent Miller. He has also had the privilege of workshopping and recording his mixed sextet Where the Quiet Things Are with the Syzygy Ensemble.
