Short Bio (118 words)
Alan Chan is a multi-faceted composer with a goal to break away from the rigid definitions of style and identity in order to create his own. His musical creation often involves collaboration ¡V an attempt to build a community of artists from different disciplines during the process. He has received recognitions from ASCAP, American Composers Forum (ACF), Percussive Arts Society (PAS) and Composers and Authors Society of Hong Kong (CASH). Chan is the co-founder and program director of Gateway Performance Series in Los Angeles, which features innovative programs with artists around the country and abroad. He is currently a member of the BMI Jazz Composers Workshop in New York City and a member of the PAS Composition Contest Committee.
Medium Bio (178 words)
Alan Chan is a multi-faceted composer with a goal to break away from the rigid definitions of style and identity in order to create his own. Through collaboration, he is building a community of artists from different disciplines to involve in his musical creations. Chan is the co-founder and program director of Gateway Performance Series in Los Angeles, which features innovative programs and emerging artists throughout the country.
Chan¡¦s music has been recognized with honors and funding from ASCAP, American Composers Forum (ACF), Percussive Arts Society (PAS), Society of Composers, Inc., Composers and Authors Society of Hong Kong (CASH), among others. He has received commission from Melody of China (San Francisco), Art and Culture Development Fund (Hong Kong), the Snell Duo (Kansas City), Lien Percussion Ensemble (Taiwan) and Composers Forum of the East (Bennington, Vermont).
Chan holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Southern California and is an active member of BMI Jazz Composers Workshop in New York City. He was a former faculty at the University of Redlands and he is a faculty member of this year¡¦s Walden School Summer Musicianship Program.
His compositions are published by HoneyRock publishing and Capstone Records. Visit www.alanchanmusic.com.
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Long Bio (481 words)
Alan Chan¡¦s music has been recognized with honors and funding from American Composers Forum (ACF), ASCAP, Society of Composers, Inc. (SCI), the Composers and Authors Society of Hong Kong (CASH), among others. He is a two-time winner of the Percussive Arts Society Composition Contest ¡V a first place with Without a Trail to Lace for voice and vibraphone in 2008 and a second place with Floes for vibraphone solo in 2004. His works have been performed in music festivals such as June in Buffalo, Imagine Festival, Musica Danubiana (Slovenia), Chamber Music Conference, International Jazz Composers¡¦ Symposium, Oregon Bach Festival and various academic conferences; and by prestigious groups such as the Fort Worth Symphony, Eastman Percussion Ensemble and Melody of China (MOC). His first percussion ensemble piece, metal¡Kstone¡Kbeing¡Kcracked (2001/02) has received performances more than ten times in the United States and in Europe. His percussion works are published solely by HoneyRock Publishing (honeyrock.net).
His personal connection with musics around the globe, such as music from Bali, China, Japan and American jazz has prompted him to incorporate those styles into his music, and even compose for those genres. Since the Fall of 2008, he is an active member of the prestigious BMI Jazz Composers Workshop in New York City, to forge his craft in jazz big band writing. He has received commissions from organizations of different musical genres, which include musical songs A Spirit¡¦s Dream and A Beautiful Rebirth (Ho Wen-Hsiung and Lin-lin Chang Bel Canto Theatre, Taiwan), Acala and Bitter Melon for Chinese instruments (MOC, San Francisco), Qin for soprano and percussion (the Snell Duo, Kansas City), Duo for violin and cello (Arts and Culture Development Fund, Hong Kong) and Sweet Bach (Lien Percussion Ensemble, Taiwan). He is currently working on a new theatric song cycle commissioned by poet Ho Wen-Hsiung, which is scheduled to be premiered in Taiwan in 2010.
He has also received commissions to write music and to perform improvisations on the piano for several theater and film productions. Edward Lam Dance Theater has presented his music for Les Parents Terribles and Far from the Madding Crowd in Hong Kong. In the U.S., his music for theater has included Yesterday Once More (New York University, 1998) and the multimedia theatre work Open (Lehigh University, 2000). He has engraved and edited music by renowned composers such as Chen Yi.
In 1999, he entered a one-year Vienna exchange program to study at the Universit?t f?r Musik und Darstellen Kunst Wien with Michael Jarrell. His mentors also include Marc-Andre Dalbavie (IRCAM summer course 2001), Toshio Hosokawa (Darmstadt summer course 2002), John Van der Slice (University of Miami), James Mobberley, Chen Yi (University of Missouri ¡V Kansas City, UMKC), Donald Crockett, Frank Ticheli, Shelly Berg and Vince Mendoza (University of Southern California). He had held teaching positions at the UMKC, USC and University of Redlands.
For more information, please visit www.alanchanmusic.com. |
