谭小棠，当今古典乐坛知名钢琴演奏家，现为中央音乐学院钢琴系主科教研室副教授，硕士生导师。

多年来，活跃于国际国内重要音乐舞台，演出足迹遍及世界各大地区和城市，以独奏家的身份参演深圳“一带一路”音乐季、国家大剧院交响乐之春音乐会、五月音乐节、漫步经典音乐季等，并与德国班贝格交响乐团、德国莱茵兰-普法尔茨州国家爱乐乐团、俄罗斯马林斯基剧院滨海分院管弦乐团、日本爱乐乐团、日本仙台爱乐乐团，以及中国国家交响乐团、中央芭蕾舞团交响乐团、北京交响乐团等国际国内著名交响乐团成功合作，得到各界一致好评。

先后应邀在法国拉威尔音乐节、德国迈森钢琴音乐节、日本仙台古典音乐节，俄罗斯马林斯基远东国际音乐节、意大利依莫拉国际钢琴音乐节、北京现代音乐节等世界各大音乐节中举办独奏、协奏音乐会。

谭小棠的演奏风格多元化，在当代音乐领域中也有大量涉猎，近年来在国内首演了叶小纲的“青芒果香”、梅西安的“四重协奏曲”、马斯韦尔·戴维斯的“海之欧菲欧”等，其录制的陈其钢的钢琴独奏作品“京剧瞬间”，被作曲家作为指定录音范本收录到极具权威性和收藏价值的《中国钢琴独奏作品百年经典(1913-2013)》中。

除了独奏领域外，还多次与国内外知名音乐家合作参演过诸多室内乐作品，如贝多芬和勃拉姆斯的全套小提琴钢琴奏鸣曲、大量的钢琴三重奏作品等。

学习过程中，先后师从于孙会清、周铭孙、凌远、杨峻以及托马斯·杜易斯、马里安·雷比奇、格哈德·欧匹兹等国内国际知名音乐学院名师，毕业于中央音乐学院、法国高等师范音乐学院和德国慕尼黑音乐和戏剧学院，获得最高级文凭-演奏家文凭和大师级文凭。在多个国内外重要赛事中屡获大奖，如 2002 年中国最高级别的音乐赛事“金钟奖”钢琴比赛第一名，2004 年“日本仙台国际钢琴比赛” 第一名和观众奖，2005 年“法国巴黎国际青年钢琴家大奖赛”第一名和观众奖。2008 年，有幸为北京奥运会录制了主题曲《我和你》和《五环旗》的钢琴部分，为北京奥运助力;

2011 年全球发行了由瑞士 TUDOR 唱片公司出版，德国巴戈利亚广播录音制作的个人唱片专辑;2016 年与小提琴家高参合作发行了北京市高等学校青年英才计划项目支持的 9 首小提琴钢琴奏鸣曲唱片;

2017 年受邀在国家大剧院音乐厅为国家大剧院唱片公司录制了诸多独奏作品和室内乐作品，与此同时还多次为法国国家电台、德国巴戈利亚广播电台、日本电视台以及中国中央电视台、中央人民广播电台、国家大剧院古典音乐频道等录制发行了诸多音乐节目和作品，获得众多好评和听众喜爱。

Xiaotang TAN is a famouspianist on the classical musicscene. He is currently anAssociate Professor in the Department of Piano Studiesat the Central Conservatory ofMusic,  and  postgraduatesupervisor.Over the years, he has beenactive on the stage of major international and domestic music eventsand has performed in many places around the world. As a soloist, he has participated in “The Belt and Road” music season in henzhen,National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA) China OrchestraFestival, May Festival, and the Roam About Classics music season among others. He has successfully worked with Germany’s Bamberg Symphony  Orchestra,  the  German  State  Philharmonic  of Rhineland-Palatinate, Russia’s Mariinsky Orchestra of the Primosky Stage, Japan Philharmonic Orchestra, Japan’s Sendai Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as the China National Symphony Orchestra, the National Ballet of China Symphony Orchestra, and the Beijing Symphony Orchestra among other famous international and domestic orchestras, highly praised by the audience and critics. He has been invited to hold recitals and concerto concerts at the Ravel Music Festival in France, the Meissen Piano Festival in Germany, the Sendai Classical Music Festival in Japan, the International Mariinsky Far East Festival in Russia, the Imola International Piano Music Festival in Italy, and the Beijing Modern Music Festival. TAN masters a wide variety of styles and has performed many contemporary works. In recent years, he has (domestic) premiered Xiaogang YE’s “Scent of the Green Mango”,Messiaen’s “Concert A Quatre”, and Maxwell Davies’ “Sea Orpheus”. His recording of Qigang CHEN’s piano solo piece “Instants d'un Opera de Pekin” has been designated by the composer as a model recording and included in the authoritative “A Century of Piano Solo Works by Chinese Composers (1913 – 2013)”. In addition to playing solo, he has cooperated with many well-known musicians, both at home and abroad, to perform numerous chamber music pieces, such as Beethoven and Brahms’ complete set of sonatas for violin and piano, and a large number of other piano trio works. TAN has studied under the tutelage of Huiqing SUN, Mingsun ZHOU, Yuan LING, Jun YANG as well as Thomas DUIS, Marian RYBICKI, and Gerhard OPPITZ among other masters at well-known music conservatories. He graduated from China’s Central Conservatory of Music, France’s L'Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris Alfred Cortot, and Germany’s Hochschule für Musik und Theater München. TAN has been awarded the highest degree – Performance Diploma and Master Degree. He has won numerous awards at major domestic and international competitions, such as first place at the 2002 “Golden Bell
Award of Chinese Music”Piano Competion; the first place and Audience Award at the “Sendai International Music Competition” piano section in 2004; the first place and Audience Award at the “Grand Prix Animato 2005”Rencontre Internationale Des Jeunes Pianistes in Paris, France. In 2008, TAN was fortunate enough to record the theme song of the Beijing Olympics “You and Me” and the piano interlude of the “Five Ringed Flag” to add to the Olympic Spirit. In 2011, he released his solo album recorded with Germany’s Bavarian Radio via Switzerland’s TUDOR label. In 2016, he worked with violinist Can GAO to publish a recording of nine violin and piano sonatas, a program supported by Beijing Higher Education Young Elite Teacher Project. In 2017, TAN was invited to the Concert Hall of NCPA to record a number of solo and chamber music pieces for the NCPA label, along with this he also performed for Radio France,Bavarian Radio,Nippon Television as well as China Central Television, China National Radio, and the NCPA Classical Music channel, winning high praise and popularity among the audience.