Ivan Tang

Pianist and Doctor in Training

Ivan began playing piano at the age of 6, and in 2011 gained a DipABRSM in piano performance. He has performed solo and duet recitals, piano concertos, chamber music concerts, and worked as an accompanist for opera productions, music degree recitals, and ABRSM graded examinations. In his childhood, he appeared as an extra in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire as a violinist in the Yule Ball scene.

Ivan trains in intensive care and respiratory medicine as part of the Thames Valley school. He is especially interested in medical education, having set up various simulation-based teaching sessions for clinicians including students, doctors, and nurses. Throughout his career, he has achieved various accolades and publications, and in 2019, he was nominated for the Oxford University Hospitals ‘Doctor of the Year’ award. He is particularly interested in early music, running a 1999 Andrew Wooderson Mietke harpsichord and an 1830’s Broadwood square piano. During his work at Milton Keynes University Hospital, he helped the hospital charity procure a piano which became the centrepiece of the organ donation art installation.

Ivan’s link to Andrew Gray stretches back to the early 2000s, both developing their roots in music at Milton Keynes Music Service. Despite diverging career paths, they continued to work together in solo, chamber, and orchestral performances, having collaborated for Schumann’s piano concerto Op. 54 and Beethoven’s fifth piano concerto ‘Emperor’ Op. 73 with the Radcliffe Orchestra, Rachmaninoff’s second piano concerto Op. 18 with the Fleet Concert Orchestra, and Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue with the Burford Orchestra. Follow Ivan on Instagram and Youtube @thepianotang.