Conductor Fan Tao, a national first-level conductor, graduated from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music and studied under the famous conductor and educator Mr. Huang Xiaotong. Since 1995, he has been the permanent conductor of the China Radio and Film Symphony Orchestra. Fan Tao has successively conducted the Finnish National Radio Orchestra, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Finnish AVANTI Chamber Orchestra, Sibelius Conservatoire Orchestra, Oberlin Symphony Orchestra in the United States, University of Florida Symphony Orchestra and Philharmonic Orchestra, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra, Shanghai Opera House, Central Opera House, National Ballet of China, China Opera and Dance Theater, Hong Kong Pan-Asian Symphony Orchestra and many other domestic and foreign orchestras. He has also collaborated with outstanding performers and choirs at home and abroad many times, and recorded a large number of records and film and television music. He is a talented and outstanding conductor.

Fan Tao’s conducting is delicate, technically proficient, full of passion and tension. In May 2000, he was invited to participate in the Second Sibelius International Conducting Competition in Finland and won the Special Jury Award. This was the first time a Chinese won an award in this competition. The chief conductor of the Royal Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and the Helsinki Philharmonic commented that he is “an outstanding professional conductor with strong ability to control the orchestra.” Mr. Salonen, director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and conductor, served as the chairman of the jury. He was deeply impressed by Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring" he conducted. After winning the competition in 2000, Fan Tao was awarded the Sibelius Family Fund, and then studied under Mr. Salonen to improve his conducting art. At the annual Finnish Summer Music Festival, Fan Tao once again displayed his conducting skills, and the Finnish national television broadcast the concert live. He was once again loved by the Finnish people who love music.

In 2001, Fan Tao received a full scholarship to study conducting in the United States, where he studied under the famous conducting educator Mr. Philip. In 2003, he was invited to conduct a series of distinctive modern works by famous contemporary American composers at the 11th Florida Modern Music Festival. Some of the works were world premieres, and the composers all attended the performances in person. In September of the same year, he conducted the Florida Modern Chamber Orchestra in a successful concert of modern works at Carnegie Hall in New York, which received unanimous praise from the local press and composers. In 2006, the ASEAN International Organization invited Fan Tao to conduct a symphony concert composed of musicians from eleven ASEAN countries in front of the world monument Angkor Wat. In July 2007, he was also invited to serve as a judge for the finals of the 13th Oberlin International Piano Competition in the United States. Fan Tao leads an excellent professional symphony orchestra with his deep understanding of music. He recorded with the China Philharmonic Orchestra the most beautiful and unforgettable melodies in a series of classic recordings such as "Music Gate", China Broadcasting Folk Orchestra's "Four Masterpieces", "Yellow River", "Butterfly Lovers", etc., which won him many awards. Received the honor of Best Conductor of the Year in the 2007 Top Ten Fever Record List