Oscar L. Tang
New York Philharmonic Co-Chairman
Oscar L. Tang has supported institutions that promote excellence in education, arts, culture, athletics, and the advancement of social justice for four decades. Mr. Tang was part of the Lincoln Center–New York Philharmonic leadership that led the historic renovation of David Geffen Hall in 2022; his landmark gift endows the NY Phil’s music and artistic directorship, beginning with the appointment of Gustavo Dudamel.
For more than 30 years Mr. Tang has been a trustee of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, where he has endowed the new wing for modern and contemporary art. He also endowed The New York Historical’s new wing for American history and democracy, which will open in 2026 in honor of the nation’s semi-quincentennial.
Mr. Tang also serves on the boards of the Committee of 100, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, and USA Bobsled & Skeleton Foundation. In 1989 he co-founded the Committee of 100 with Yo-Yo Ma, I.M. Pei, and others to advance US-China relations and Chinese American inclusion.
In 1990 Mr. Tang was appointed by President George H.W. Bush to the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities; he later served on the New York State Council on the Arts from 2002 to 2004 at the appointment of Governor George Pataki. Mr. Tang was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2005.
A graduate of Phillips Academy Andover, Oscar Tang served on the Academy’s board of trustees from 1995 to 2012, and as board president
from 2004 to 2012. Under his leadership Andover became the first American preparatory school to go “need blind.” He attended Yale University and Harvard Business School, and has founded centers of academic excellence at Andover, Princeton, Columbia, University of California–Berkeley, and Oxford, including most recently the Hsu-Tang Library for Classical Chinese Literature at the Oxford University Press.
Mr. Tang has been a private investor since 1993, when he retired from Reich & Tang, an asset management firm that he co-founded and served as president and CEO for 20 years.