About Ian

Ian Chan (he/they) is a multi-faceted theater musician based in New York City.

Ian’s artistic work focuses on the creation, development, and production of new musicals. Ian has worked across North America, on and off Broadway, as a composer, arranger, orchestrator, music director, and pianist.

Ian is currently the music associate at The Queen of Versailles on Broadway, where he also is a keyboard substitute and rehearsal pianist. Other Broadway credits include Operation Mincemeat (key 2 sub), Hell’s Kitchen (key 3 sub), SMASH (key 2 sub, music assistant), The Heart of Rock and Roll (score supervisor, rehearsal pianist), and 1776 (rehearsal pianist, music assistant). Off-Broadway, some of his favorite projects have included Out of the Box Theatrics’ Drama Desk-nominated revival of See What I Wanna See (associate MD/conductor) and the multi-award winning PAC NYC production of CATS: The Jellicle Ball (key 2 sub, music associate).

Ian’s musicals have been performed all across North America. Their most recent work, OUT (with book by Kalos Chu and lyrics by JuHye Mun) was developed as part of Theatre Aquarius’s National Centre for New Musicals. Both OUT and The More You Know (book & lyrics by Chloe E.W. Levine) were semifinalists at the Eugene O’Neill National Music Theater Conference. Their music has been performed at 54 Below, the Musical Stage Company, Playdate Theatre, Office for the Arts at Harvard, and Bravo Academy, among other groups. Ian also writes concert music, performed by groups like the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum, Scarborough Philharmonic Orchestra, Etobicoke Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Sneak Peek Orchestra.

Ian is a member of Musicians United for Social Equity (MUSE), and is committed to advocating for Asian and LGBTQ+ representation in the arts. Ian holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from Harvard University, where he graduated with highest honors in Linguistics and received the 2023 Louis Sudler Prize in the Arts. Ian was proudly born in Hong Kong and raised just outside Toronto, Canada.