Rudolph Tang (唐若甫) is a reporter for Musical America
based in Shanghai, member of the Society for Musical Criticism of China
since 2018, chair of the Ginastera International Society’s China
branch. He has covered topics on classical music and opera since 2000. His first book The Many Faces of Musicians in China, a collection of music criticism and journalism since 2005, was published by Beijing Normal University Press in September 2014.
Christoph Poppen, new jury co-chair of the Hong Kong International Conducting Competition, argues that the competition valuable because it allows young conductors to meet one another, in what is an otherwise lonely profession.