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Marc Chan

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“Gifted.” – New York Times
“Intriguing.” – New York Concert Review
"... From quietly intoned sound points to grand waves that warbled and thundered." - The Washington Post
"Inventive ... transfixing ... Of the new interludes the most inviting was Mr. Chan’s, a study in repeating, slowly morphing figures built around chimelike tintinnabulations and ending up in a chromatic Minimalist swirl." - New York Times
New York-based composer and pianist Marc Chan is a native of Singapore. Described by the New York Times as “a gifted young pianist and composer” who writes music of “impressive … daunting physicality”, Marc’s music has been performed by the Russian National Orchestra, New York’s TACTUS Contemporary Music Ensemble, Boston’s Alea III, Red Light New Music, pianists Xiayin Wang and David Broome. He has also worked with flutist Patti Monson, conductors David Gilbert and Theodore Antoniou, Dutch soprano Oda Vilrokx and violinist of the Muir String Quartet Peter Zazofsky. Marc’s music has been performed at Carnegie Hall, the Smithsonian, Le Poisson Rouge, Singapore’s Esplanade Theaters On The Bay, and various other venues. His Nocturne for solo guitar has been published in the journal Guitar Review.
As a pianist, Marc is active as a performer and interpreter of contemporary classical music. He has performed with Boston University’s new music ensemble Time’s Arrow and with Ensemble Robot at the Boston Museum of Science as part of their ‘When Science Meets Art’ series. As an accompanist, he has accompanied singers from the Metropolitan Opera and the New York City Opera.
Marc is a graduate of the Manhattan School of Music and Boston University. He has studied with Giampaolo Bracali, Theodore Antoniou, and Richard Cornell. Marc has also studied conducting with Maestros David Gilbert and Theodore Antoniou and participated in master classes given by Ned Rorem and Lukas Foss. An avid blogger, Marc’s review of a Boston Symphony concert was quoted in length by Geoff Edgers of the Boston Globe.
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Member Since: 08/01/2007
Band Website: http://foundsound.blogspot.com
Influences: People, places, poems, pictures, pieces that I really like. A lot.Composers, Compositions, Musicians, Note-people John Cage Number Pieces, Suite for Toy Piano, String Quartet, Water Music, Cheap Imitation and almost everything he's written, Morton Feldman Durations series, String Quartet no.2, Triadic Memories, Giampaolo Bracali, Margaret Leng Tan, Keith Jarrett, Stephen Sondheim, Arvo Part Spiegel Im Spiegel, J S Bach, Gyorgy Ligeti Poeme Symphonique, Gyorgy Kurtag, Meredith Monk The Tale, Erik Satie Gymnopedies, Sports and Diversions, Biber's violin music (with and without scordatura), Vivaldi Four Seasons (as performed by Il Giardino Armonico), Nina Simone, Christian Wallumrod, Berio Rendering and other transcriptions, William Finn Elegies, Taylor Mac The Young Ladies of ...Visual Artists, Picture-people Douglas Gordon, Bruegel, Marcel Duchamp, Bill Viola, Alan Fletcher, Joseph Albers Interaction of Color, Alexander CalderPhilosophers, Thinkers, Concept-people Giles Deleuze ... the impatience of waiting serves to identify other durations different from yours, Henri Bergson, Susan Sontag essays Notes On Camp, Against Interpretation, On Photography, Roland Barthes, Jacques AttaliFilm Makers, Films, TV Shows, Movement-Image-Time-Image-People Robert Altman Prairie Home Companion, Anthony Minghella The English Patient, Kung-Fu epics by Zhang Yimou, Josh Wheedon Buffy the Vampire-Slayer, Charmed, Little Miss Sunshine, Baz Luhrmann Moulin Rouge, Chris Marker La Jetee, Aaron Katz Quiet City, Funny Girl, Gus Van SantPoets, Writers, Books, Translators, Word-people Alfian Sa'at, Basho Narrow Road to the Interior (translated by Donald Keene), Kenko Essays in Idleness (translated by Donald Keene), Kakuzo Okakura Book of Tea, Yoko Ono Grapefruit, Susan Sontag On Photography, Virginia Woolf, Samuel BeckettMisc music as process, found objects, ready-mades, imitations, transcriptions, translations, instant Polaroids, cabaret, mumblecore, aesthetics of decay, '... grain of the voice', food network, dogs
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Repeated Measures: New York Times Review

Repeated Measures (Interlude II) review in the New York Times.
Posted by on Sun, 19 Jul 2009 03:27:00 GMT

My Wounded Head: New York Times Review

The New York Times review for My Wounded Head (dreams of moths) came out this morning. Click here for the review!
Posted by on Wed, 02 Apr 2008 06:28:00 GMT

Landscape With Lines


Posted by on Fri, 13 Jul 2007 19:51:00 GMT