Taiwanese composer Ya-Lan Chan is currently based in New York. She is interested in the collaborative process of music making between composer and performer as well as exploring using musical gestures to create subtle and transparent sound. She also collaborated with various artistic mediums and done so with animation, poetry, dancing, and lighting design. Ya-Lan has recently been awarded the 2022 Manhattan Prize for her string quartet, a finalist for the Mivos Kanter String Quartet Composition Prize, as well as commissions from the Percussion Ensemble at the Manhattan School of Music, New Chamber Ballet, and grants from the National Culture and Arts Foundation from Taiwan. Ya-Lan has actively participated in many new music festivals, such as Etchings Festival (FR), Musikinstitut Darmstadt (GR), Yarn/Wire Institute, and Unheard-of CCI (USA). She was invited to work with Longleash Trio as a fellow composer of the Loretto project, where her piece Brief Candle was recorded. Ya-Lan holds a D.M.A. in composition from Manhattan School of music where she was awarded the Saul Braverman Award in Music Theory as well as degrees from Taipei National University of the Arts (B.A.) Previously, she was appointed coordinator of theory tutoring program at Manhattan School of Music, where she served as a teaching fellow in the College theory department. She studied with Reiko Füting and Susan Botti during her graduate studies in the United States and with Tsung- Hsien Yang and Wan-Jen Huang in Taiwan. Her study has been supported by the Taiwan Ministry of Education.
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