Home — Tengku Irfan: Conductor and Pianist

"eminently cultured"
"sheer incisiveness (and) power"

— The New York Times

"...his apparent coolness while generating white heat in playing must be the most enviable trait in this profession."

— The Straits Times

"Tengku Irfan was inexhaustible, and the energy and clarity of his playing were dazzling"

— New York Classical Review

"...admirable crispness and flair."

— The Aspen Times

"Tengku Irfan was inexhaustible, and the energy and clarity of his playing were dazzling"

— New York Classical Review

Malaysian-born Tengku Irfan has appeared around the world as a pianist, conductor, and composer, and has been praised by The New York Times as “eminently cultured” and possessing “sheer incisiveness and power”. Irfan has performed with orchestras worldwide with conductors Claus Peter Flor, Neeme Järvi, Kristjan Järvi, Robert Spano, Osmo Vänskä, among others. His compositions have been premiered by highly-acclaimed orchestras and ensembles, and have won international awards including three ASCAP Morton Gould Awards in 2012, 2014, and 2017. As a conductor, he was a runner-up and audience prize winner of the Los Angeles Conducting Competition in 2021 and worked as assistant/cover conductor for David Robertson, Speranza Scappucci, Carlos Miguel Prieto, Simone Young, and Sir Andrew Davis.

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