Joel Fan

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

Life

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

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

His debut album World Keys, grossed on the fan next to compositions Sergei Prokofiev, Franz Liszt and Robert Schumann works by Halim El- Dabh Ahmed Adnan Saygun, Peteris Vasks, slide Succari, Peter Sculthorpe and Qigang Chen, reached the third place in the Billboard Classical chart. In 2009 he released his second album, West of the Sun with compositions Ernesto Nazareth, Alberto Ginastera, Heitor Villa -Lobos ' and Astor Piazzolla, Amy Beach's, William Bolcom and Samuel Barber, who came in the top ten of the Billboard Classical chart also.

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