ALAN CHAN
Doctor of Musical Arts (University of Southern California)
Master of Music (University of Missouri - Kansas City)
Bachelor of Music (University of Miami)
Licentiate in Piano Performance (Trinity College, London , UK)

composer, conductor, pianist, music copyist

info@alanchanmusic.com

Culver City, California / Brooklyn, New York

A multi-faceted composer, Alan Chan has written music for concert, film, theatre and installation, and across many genres and styles. Chan’s music has been recognized with honors and funding from ASCAP, American Composers Forum (ACF), Percussive Arts Society (PAS), Composers and Authors Society of Hong Kong (CASH), among others. His works has been presented in music festivals such as Chamber Music Conference (Bennington), Imagine Festival, International Jazz Composers Symposiums, Musica Danubiana (Slovania) and Oregon Bach Festival. Chan’s commission works include Acala and Bitter Melon for Chinese instruments (Melody of China, San Francisco), Qin for soprano and percussion (Snell Duo) and Sweet Bach (Lien Percussion Ensemble, Taiwan). He is currently a member of the BMI Jazz Composers Workshop in New York City and a member of the PAS Composition Contest Committee.
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Curriculum Vitae

11.12.2009 - Sweet Bach for percussion quintet @ PASIC by Brett Dietz and the Hamiruge Percussion Ensemble

10.20. 2009 - Qin premiere @ UMKC by the Snell Duo

9.13.2009 - Listen, Hold Your Breath premiere @ Gateway Christian Church (Words: Rev. Dr. David McAllister)

8.15.2009 - Sweet Bach for percussion quintet available for purchased @ HoneyRock Publishing

7.31.2009 - Received American Composers Forum (ACF) Subito Grant funding to attend the premiere of Qin and to start a new collaboration project with flutist Angela Rowland in Kansas City, MO in October 2009

7.19.2009 - the recording of Daughter's Lullaby, performed by conductor Donald Crockett, soprano Courtney Huffman, and the USC Thornton Symphony, is selected to be included in the upcoming Society of Composers, Inc (SCI) CD series. It will be released by Capstone Records in 2010. (Words: Nicky Schildkraut)

Sweet Bach (percussion quintet)
Without a Trail to Lace (voice and vibraphone)
Floes (vibraphone)

Design: Sam Lee
Words of Without a Trail to Lace: Nicky Schildkraut

PREVIOUS PROJECTS

The Walla! Project (March 2009)
1 ...je vis, vox+pno:
Ren Bell, voice; Alan Chan, piano

2. René's Barcarolle, jazz orchestra:

…je vis is a musical setting of text by French philosopher and poet René Daumal (1908-1944), for Emily Mast’s MFA Thesis Exhibition on 3/5/2009 - a one-act play/installation features 5 actors, artificial audience, accordionist and guitarist. (see above photo) René's Barcarolle is a fantasy for jazz big band inspired by show.

Online interdisciplinary journal (spring 2009)
Digital Composer Archive: Alan Chan

Five short documentary films about Alan Chan's collaborative works.

10.18.2008 - Lien Percussion Ensemble - premiere of Sweet Bach
7:30 p.m. National Concert Hall, Taipei

10.24.2008 - Melody of China - premiere of Bitter Melon
8 p.m. Old First Church, San Francisco, Californi


(what is pipa and erhu?)

8.9.2008 - Lin-lin Chang Recital Theatre
- premiere of Beautiful Rebirth

2.7.2008: Daughter's Lullaby premiere at USC
Courtney Huffman / soprano
Donald Crockett / conductor
USC Thornton Symphony Orchestra

6.12-14.2008 - International Jazz Composers' Symposium with Chuck Owen and the Jazz Surge
Shrimp Tale for Jazz orchestra

8.10/11.2007: Li Tai Hsiang's Mythical Dream
Alan Chan / conductor

7.10.2007: Letty Poon and David Leung duo -
premiere of Duo (2007)

5.25.2007: Melody of China premiere of Acala (2007)