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Dr. Cheryl Tan

Research Fellow (Music)
      
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Dr. Cheryl Tan

Research Fellow (Music)

 CHERYL.TAN@tcd.ie

 


Cheryl Tan is a pianist, fortepianist, researcher, and lecturer whose work focuses on keyboard culture of the long nineteenth century. She holds a Doctor of Musical Arts from Cornell University, where she studied historical performance practice and completed a dissertation entitled 'Clara Wieck and her Piano Variations: Postclassical Pianism of the 1830s'. She previously studied in Britain, graduating from the University of Oxford with First Class and the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama with Distinction. Cheryl joined Trinity College Dublin as a Government of Ireland (Research Ireland) Postdoctoral Research Fellow in September 2025. Her project, `Revisiting Clara Wieck(-Schumann): Virtuosity, Identity, and Lost Repertory', explores the postclassical milieu at the intersection of performance, analysis, and historical-cultural study. She has also taught across performance and academic disciplines, having held positions across Britain at the Universities of Southampton, Bristol, and Oxford, as well as at Cornell University in the United States. Cheryl has presented papers, recitals, and lecture-recitals internationally on both modern and historical pianos; her research has appeared in Nineteenth-Century Music Review. Shaped by her experiences as a pianist and scholar, her research into lost pianistic traditions and the works of women composers seeks to bring scholarship and practice into mutually illuminating dialogue.
Cheryl Tan, Clara Schumann: Complete Songs Miriam Alexandra sop, Peter Gijsbertsen ten, Jozef De Beenhouwer pf Musikproduktion Dabringhaus und Grimm MDG9032114, 2019 (1 CD: 71 minutes). €16.65 - Clara Schumann Piano Works Cristina Mantese sop, Daniel Levy pf Edelweiss Emission EDEM 3396, 2019 (1 CD: 71 minutes). €16.00, Nineteenth-Century Music Review, 21, (1), 2024, p154 - 160, Review Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI
  

Cheryl Tan and Tabitha Selley, 'Duo Recital: Artistic Temperaments Festival', Southampton, England, 2026, -, Notes: [Concert Programme: *1826 Broadwood Fortepiano* Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel Sonata-Fantasy in G minor Capriccio in A-flat Louise Farrenc Sonata for Piano and Cello in B-flat, Op. 46 - intermission - *Bösendorfer* Mélanie Bonis Sonata for Piano and Cello, Op. 67 Rebecca Clarke Sonata for Viola (or Cello) and Piano], Music Production, PERFORMED
Cheryl Tan and Tabitha Selley, 'Illuminated Voices: Duo Recital', Cardiff, Wales, 2026, -, Notes: [Concert Programme: Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel Capriccio in A-flat Louise Farrenc Cello Sonata in B-flat, Op. 46 Rebecca Clarke Sonata for Viola (or Cello) and Piano], Music Production, PERFORMED
Cheryl Tan and Tabitha Selley, 'Revisiting Cyclic Forms: Sonatas by Mélanie Bonis and Rebecca Clarke', 2026, -, Notes: [Programme: Mélanie (Mel) Bonis Sonata for Piano and Cello, Op. 67 Rebecca Clarke Sonata for Viola (or Cello) and Piano Encore: Dilys Elwyn-Edwards Mae Hiraeth yn y Môr], Music Production, PERFORMED
Cheryl Tan and Tabitha Selley, The Cello Sonatas of Marie Jaëll (1881), Mélanie Bonis (1904), and Marcelle Soulage (1919): Collaborative Practices, Gender, and Large-Scale Form, Collaborative Practices in France, 1875-2025, Bangor University, School of Music, 16 October 2025, 2025, Conference Paper, PRESENTED
Cheryl Tan, Henri Herz's Bravura Variations and the Virtuosities of Postclassical Pianism, Royal Musical Association 61st Annual Conference, University of Southampton, 10-12 September 2025, 2025, Notes: [Lecture-Recital], Conference Paper, PRESENTED
Cheryl Tan, Clara Wieck's Virtuosity: Concertising and Composing in the Postclassical Age, Trinity Seminar in Musicology Series, Trinity College Dublin, Department of Music, 23 October 2025, 2025, Trinity College Dublin, Department of Music, Invited Talk, PRESENTED
Cheryl Tan, Clara Wieck(-Schumann) and Henri Herz: An Unexpected Pairing, or A Lost History?, Maynooth University Research Seminar Series, Maynooth University Department of Music, 3 December 2025, 2025, Maynooth University, Invited Talk, PRESENTED
Cheryl Tan, Rediscovering Clara Wieck: Postclassical Virtuosity, Variations, and the Making of a Virtuosa, Royal Irish Academy of Music Guest Lecture Series, Online, 10 December 2025, 2025, Royal Irish Academy of Music, Invited Talk, PRESENTED
Cheryl Tan, From Weber to Mendelssohn: Piano Variations in the Culture of Small Forms, Kleinformen der Klaviermusik im 19. Jahrhundert, Kloster Michaelstein, 14-16 November 2025, 2025, Kloster Michaelstein Musikakademie, Invited Talk, PRESENTED
Cheryl Tan and Tabitha Selley, 'Recital: Cello Sonatas by Fanny Mendelssohn, Mélanie Bonis, and Rebecca Clarke', The Expansive Canvas, Whyte Hall, Royal Irish Academy of Music, Trinity College Dublin, Royal Irish Academy of Music, 2025, -, Music Production, PERFORMED

  


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Award Date
Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellowship September 2025