GSF Youth Orchestra Festival (GYO) 2023

Chan Tze Law- Artistic Director  

Singaporean conductor Chan Tze Law is Vice Dean and founding faculty member of the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music, National University of Singapore (NUS), where he lectures on conducting and leadership and is widely recognised as the founding music director of the conservatory orchestra.
Chan is also the Music Director of Singapore's award-winning Orchestra of the Music Makers (OMM) and the Metropolitan Festival Orchestra (MFO), and has appeared with major orchestras in the Asia pacific region and with soloists such as Lang Lang, Ng Pei-Sian, Melvyn Tan, Albert Tiu, Qin Li-Wei and Yevgeny Sudbin. Chan’s performances of Mahler's 8th symphony with OMM and Sing50 concerts with superstar pianist Lang Lang and MFO were both named 'Best concerts' by Singapore's Sunday Times. In 2020 he conducted OMM in the Singapore premiere of Richard Wagner's Die Walküre to critical acclaim, with Opera (UK) proclaiming that Chan “elicited a multitude of expressive nuances and drew immense power without force from his musicians.”
Originally trained as a violinist, Chan holds both doctoral and master degrees in conducting and management respectively. He was the founding chief conductor of the Australian International Summer Orchestral Institute, and was invited to conduct at the Australian Youth Orchestra's National Music Camp in 2020 and 2022. He has given masterclasses in conducting at the Peabody Institute, USA, and Royal Academy of Music, London, and served on the selection committee of the Oxford Conducting Institute International Conducting Studies Conference.
Chan’s concerts and CD recordings have been broadcast on Australia's ABC Classic FM, UK's BBC Radio 3 and featured on Singapore Airlines KrisWorld in-flight Classical Music selection, Apple Music, YouTube and Spotify. In 2023 he was appointed as the university’s Vice Dean of students overseeing the transformation of the NUS Center for the Arts.