JEREMY CHAN

JEREMY CHAN is a freelance Australian pianist and vocal coach based in New York City. A versatile musician with a flair for improvisation, he loves collaborating with artists who sing, play, and dance. 

Jeremy is on artistic staff at Juilliard and the Manhattan School of Music, and serves as Director of Music at Advent Lutheran Church. His playing has been praised as “superb" and for "summoning about as much color as can possibly be coaxed out” (New York Classical Review). 

This 2023-24 season includes productions of West Side Story (Opera Australia), Britten’s A Midsummer Night's Dream (Manhattan School of Music), Massenet’s Cendrillon, performances at Carnegie Hall, David Geffen Hall, National Sawdust, BAM, NYU, Columbia University, and appearances with the Brooklyn Art Song Society, American Opera Projects, Brooklyn Chamber Orchestra, Central City Chorus, St. John’s in the Village, and the Isadora Duncan Dance Foundation. 

He has played at London’s Wigmore Hall, Trinity Church Wall St, and other major venues around the globe including Boston, Washington DC, Toronto, Vancouver, Salzburg, Sydney, Melbourne, Venice, Beijing, Shanghai, Wuhan, Changsha.

In the world of opera, Jeremy has worked on over 30 productions around the United States. Especially adept in contemporary opera, Jeremy has served as music director for NYU’s Graduate Theatre Opera Lab, American Opera Projects, Juilliard Opera Lab, and Justine Chen's Seven Sisters workshop. Jeremy was pianist/coach for the 2017 China tour of Bright Sheng’s Dream of the Red Chamber. 

After over six years of performing together as a duo, during the pandemic, Jeremy established the Vertex Duo with mezzo-soprano Kristin Gornstein and released their first studio collaboration "Still", available on all streaming platforms. The duo recorded their debut album of all-contemporary music, Joy, Too, at Sun Hill Studio in Yellow Barn, Vermont with multiple Grammy award winning producer Judith Sherman, to be released August 2, 2024. Jeremy also appears on the NAXOS label.

A highly sought after audition pianist for opera companies, competitions, conductors, managers, and opera singers, Jeremy has served as official pianist for the distinguished Naumburg 2020-21 International Vocal Competition, and the New York City auditions for Aspen Opera Center, Wolf Trap Opera, inter alia. 

As a chamber musician, Jeremy has performed with the American String Quartet and the Hector del Curto Quintet. Jeremy sat on the selection committee for the Steinway & Sons 2019 Junior Piano Competition and on the peer review committee for the 2020 and 2024 Arts Fund with the American Australian Association.

A passionate activist for diversity in the arts, Jeremy serves on the Board of the Asian Opera Alliance, and is a member of Wear Yellow Proudly. His writing on Asian representation in opera has been published in the Opera America magazine.

In high demand as a choral accompanist, Jeremy collaborates regularly with Choirs of America for their NYC concerts at Carnegie Hall and David Geffen Hall, Cantori New York, Every Voice Choirs, Manhattan Concert Productions, playing for conductors including Z. Randall Stroope, Dillo Rolworth, Karen Kennedy, Andre Thomas, Rene Clausen, Josh Habermann, Doreen Rao, Mark Shapiro, and Sandra Snow. Jeremy is the official accompanist for the Central City Chorus.

Jeremy received degrees from Queens College, Manhattan School of Music, and fellowships from Juilliard, Tanglewood, Georg Solti Accademia, Aspen, Toronto Summer Music Festival, and the Vancouver International Song Institute.

Outside of music, he revels in yoga, tea, and food adventures. Follow Jeremy @jeremychanpiano and jeremychanpiano.com

Updated March 2024