Ian Chan is a Hong Kong-Canadian composer, arranger, orchestrator, and music director/pianist based in New York City.
Ian’s artistic work focuses on the creation, development, and production of new musicals. Current projects include:
– The Crossroads (composer/co-lyricist), commissioned by the Musical Stage Company;
– Freak The Mighty (associate music director) at Cleveland Play House and Seattle Rep;
– The King’s Critique (arranger/orchestrator), in development with ArtLab and LDK Productions;
– Operation Mincemeat and Chess (keyboard substitute), currently running on Broadway.
Recently, Ian was 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 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 own 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.
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.
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