Starling Tan is a composer, arranger, & session musician based in Australia. With a style described as warm, expressive and emotive, she has composed for indie games including Loch Mess and Wrong Number. Her compositional process involves drawing together different threads to tell a story through instrumentation, melodic motif and tone colour.

As a recording artist, Starling combines technical skill with a passion for exploring the expressive and timbral potential of acoustic instruments, specialising in the cello, oboe, cor anglais, and Irish tin whistle.

In the live music space, Starling works with Sinister Creative to create and arrange music for events such as the recent SOUND BYTE, a celebration of Australian video game music presented in collaboration with Freeplay.

In her spare time, Starling plays piano on Twitch and bakes. Crucially, she mains Sage in FFXIV.