Tangram is a music collective transcending the China-West divide

​“After a couple of minutes, everyone in the room just stopped...It was very special.”
- Jessica Cottis, conductor

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​Review: I CARE IF YOU LISTEN

​"Dazzling instrumental display"
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"more like a festival than a concert"

"​Their ideas are at the cutting edge of contemporary debates around identity and how this is expressed and communicated in musical terms."
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Read full review here!

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Tangram on BBC Radio 3

Co-director Alex on Free Thinking with Rana Mitter on Chinese identities, cultures and music here

Co-director Reylon on Music Matters with composer Tonia Ko and Tom Service on Tangram Lunar New Year visit to LSO St. Luke's here

A brief timeline of Tangram

2019

Launch at LSO St. Luke's winning Chinese Art Now's Artist Development Bursary

Reylon wins nonclassical's Battle of the Bands performing Alex's Rituals and Resonances

Tangram produce and premiere Alex's anti-opera, Untold, supported by Sound and Music, Arts Council England, and Help Musicians UK

Untold wins George Butterworth Award for "an outstanding new work"

2020

Appointed Associate Ensemble at SOAS University of London

Sell-out LSO St. Luke's premiering commissions by Jasmin Kent Rodgman and Raymond Yiu

Raymond Yiu's Tangram commission shortlisted for RPS Composition Award

Tangram Voices launches directed by Sun Keting

2021

Awarded Jerwood Arts' Live Work Fund

Awarded Genesis Foundation's Kickstarter Fund

Puzzle Pieces launched

Find out more about Tangram's past and present

Go behind the scenes in our Puzzle Pieces series, supported by Jerwood Arts, as our artists share their studios and creative processes

​“...you're unlikely to hear anything quite like a Tangram concert anywhere else."
- Round Revue

Hear the individual voices of our brilliant artists, each of whom have woven different paths between Chinese and western cultures, in our Tangram Voices series