Joel fan

Joel Fan (born July 29, 1969 in New York City ) is an American pianist.

Life

Joel Fan, son of Taiwanese immigrants, made his pianist debut at the age of eleven with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra as the winner of the orchestra 's Young People's Concert Auditions . He was a student of Katherine Parker and Martin Canin at the Pre-College Division of the Juilliard School of Music , studied at Harvard University with Leon Kirchner and at the Peabody Conservatory with Leon Fleisher .

Fan won first prize at the International Busoni Competition and the Chopin Prize of the Kosciuzko Foundation. He performed as a soloist a. a. with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra , the London Sinfonietta , the Singapore Symphony Orchestra and the Odessa Philharmonic Orchestra and conducted by conductors such as David Zinman , Alan Gilbert , Zubin Mehta , David Alan Miller , Gustav Meier and David Robertson on. As a member of Yo-Yo Mas Silk Road Ensemble he performed a. a. at Carnegie Hall in New York, the Kennedy Center in Washington DC and the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, on the television program Good Morning America and the Late Show with David Letterman .

His debut album World Keys , on which Fan recorded compositions by Sergei Prokofjew , Franz Liszt and Robert Schumann as well as works by Halim El-Dabh , Ahmed Adnan Saygun , Peteris Vasks , Dia Succari , Peter Sculthorpe and Qigang Chen , reached third place on the billboard Classical chart . In 2009 his second album West of the Sun was released with compositions by Ernesto Nazareth , Alberto Ginasteras , Heitor Villa-Lobos and Astor Piazzollas , Amy Beachs , William Bolcoms and Samuel Barbers , which also made it into the top ten of the Billboard Classical Chart.