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;
– The King’s Critique (music supervisor, co-arranger, co-orchestrator), Off-Broadway at Signature Theatre; and
– Operation Mincemeat (conductor and keyboard substitute), currently running on Broadway.
Ian’s other Broadway credits include Chess, Hell’s Kitchen, The Queen of Versailles, SMASH, The Heart of Rock and Roll, and 1776. 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 a M.A. in Linguistics and a B.A. in Linguistics & Mathematics from Harvard University, where he received the the 2023 Louis Sudler Prize in the Arts.
