Margaret Leng Tan

Margaret Leng Tan (Chinese: 陳靈; Min Nan: Tân Lêng; pinyin: Chén Líng) is a classical music artist known for her work as a professional toy pianist, performing in major cities around the world on her 51 cm-high toy pianos. She is also known to be a classical music performer using unconventional instruments like toy drums, soy sauce dishes, and cat-food cans. She was born in Singapore on 12 December 1945, the daughter of former Straits Times Press chairman C. C. Tan, and started taking music lessons at the age of six. In 1961 the young Tan took first place in the Singapore-Malaysia annual piano competition, and won a scholarship to study at The Juilliard School at age 16 in the following year. In 1971 she became the first woman to earn a...