A native of Plano, Texas, Melody Tang began her musical career on piano at age four and on guitar and percussion at age nine. Melody is an advocate of new music and community outreach, and she loves all sorts of fun percussion sounds! Though she is classically trained, over the years, she has loved diving into other areas of music such as steel pan, theater percussion, contemporary music, competitive drumline, marching band, hand drumming, and jazz piano. Melody is currently pursuing a Master’s of Music in Percussion Performance and Master’s of Music in Chamber Music at University of Michigan. She graduated with a Bachelor of Percussion Performance at Southern Methodist University in 2025. Some of her teachers have included Doug Perkins, Ian Antonio, Michael Gould, Tom Sherwood, Jeremy Epp, Nancy Zeltsman, George Nickson, Brian Jones, Ed Smith, Drew Lang, Jamal Mohamed, John Bryant, Jon Lee, and Michael Hernandez. 

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Melody has had extensive performance experience with the U-M Symphony Orchestra and Symphony Band, U-M Contemporary Directions Ensemble, Meadows Percussion Ensemble, Meadows Symphony Orchestra, PanCats Steel Pan Band, Meadows Wind Symphony, Mustang Marching Band, Meadows World Music Ensemble, Meadows Jazz Orchestra, and a contemporary music ensemble called SYZYGY. She is also the co-founder and current member of the Midnight Trio, a Dallas-based chamber group. Melody was a World Percussion Group Artist, where she toured Spain and Portugal in the 2024 season. An advocate for equity and inclusion in the concert percussion community, Melody was an Emerging Artist through The Network for Diversity in Concert Percussion (NDCP) during the 2024-25 season.

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Recently, Melody has performed at the World Percussion Group Spain and Portugal Tour, Eastern Music Festival, Modern Snare Drum Competition, Percussive Arts International Convention, Nief Norf Summer Festival, Great Plains International Marimba Competition, Ted Atkatz Percussion Seminar, Petrichor International Music Competition, Texas Day of Percussion, and So Percussion Summer Institute. Melody teaches percussion private lessons in Michigan, and outside of that, she really enjoys writing and arranging music, producing electronic music, and hiking.