Assistant Professor Dr Christine Tan Yunn Bing
Head of Praxis, Industry and Community Engagement
Academic Qualifications
DMA (Piano)
MMus (Piano)
BA (Piano Pedagogy)
Performer’s Certificate (Piano)
Areas of Interest
Christine Yunn Bing Tan received her bachelor, master and DMA in Piano Pedagogy and Piano Performance from United States. She is currently an assistant professor at the Institute of Music, UCSI University, Malaysia. Christine’s interest is in the area of piano pedagogy, piano duet/duo, piano literature and piano festival and competition. She was invited to perform duo-piano recitals in Malaysia, Indonesia, Taiwan and China. Apart from her teaching role as faculty member at the Institute of Music, she is a well-sought-after adjudicator for piano competitions, examinations, and a clinician who has given workshops and seminars on piano pedagogy topics locally and overseas.
At UCSI University, besides her deep passion for teaching, she was the chairwoman of the first UCSI Piano Pedagogy Conference (UCSI PPC) in 2017 and chairwoman of the UCSI University International Piano Festival and Competition (IPFC) since 2020. In addition, she is the head of Praxis, Industry and Community Engagement for the Institute of Music, where she oversees and handles all the collaborations with the industries, communities and universities outside of Malaysia.
Performances
- Performed a piano duet/duo recital with Amanda Lee-Hing at Northeast Normal University, China, 2023
- Performed a piano duet/duo recital with Amanda Lee-Hing at Anshan Normal University and Dongbei Normal University, China, 2023
- Performed a piano duet/duo faculty recital with Amanda Lee-Hing, UCSI University, 2023
Conference Presentations/Publication
- Presented “A Cross-Cultural Study of Wang Jianzhong’s “100 Birds Paying Homage to the Phoenix” and Messiaen’s “Catalogue d’Oiseaux”, 2025
- Presented “Teaching the Groove: Jazz Elements and Collaborative Learning in the Piano Duets of Mike Cornick and Naoko Ikeda”, 2025
- Wrote “A Musical Journey in Northeastern China”, published in UCSI Newsletter_Oct2024_Vol.6_No.5
Workshops
- Guest trainer for Poco Studio to conduct 2 sessions of piano pedagogy topics for teachers, 2024
- Invited to present a workshop entitled “Own your Performance: Approaches to Programme building” in Understanding Performance Conference, Trinity College London (Malaysia), 2024
- Guest trainer for Poco Studio (Malaysia) to teach Piano Pedagogy course on Piano literature for elementary and intermediate levels, 2024
- Guest speaker for Aureus Academy (Singapore) to present 2 workshops on “How to Prepare students for piano competition” and “The Importance of Music History in a Music Lesson”, 2023
- Guest speaker for Poco Studio (Malaysia) to present a workshop on “How to Prepare students for piano competition”, 2022
- Guest speaker for Fingersmart (Singapore) to give 4 sessions workshop on “Contemporary Piano Repertoire: Know it, Get it, Plan it” on Zoom, 2022
- Give a workshop on “Competition Evaluation”, UCSI University, Institute of Music, 2022
Guest Lecture/Speaker
- Guest speaker to present a piano pedagogy topic at Zhaoqing University, 2024
- Presented a lecture at Changchun University (China), 2023
- Presented a lecture at Northeast Normal University (China), 2023
- Presented a lecture at Anshan Normal University (China), 2023
Adjudication
- Adjudicator for The EUROASIA YOUTH MUSIC FESTIVAL, Euroasia Association of Performing Arts, 2023
- Judge the Preliminary round for the 10th HongKong International Youth Performance Arts Festival, De Virtuozo (Malaysia), 2022
- Judge UCSI National Music Competition (Online) – Preliminary round, UCSI University, 2022
