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Born in Kuala Lumpur in 2000, pianist and composer Julian Chan is currently recipient of the Steinway & Sons Award at the Royal Academy of Music, where he studies with Ian Fountain and Michael Dussek.
In November 2020, he was awarded the Sterndale Bennett Prize at the Academy for the best performance of a programme of early Romantic works. In July 2019, he won both the First Prize and Sonata Prize at the Nanyang International Music Competition in Singapore, and was awarded Second Prize at the Oxford Music Festival in January 2019.
Julian began his studies on piano and composition at the age of 3. In 2011, he continued his studies under the specialist music scheme at Wells Cathedral School, at which he received a full scholarship. There, he studied piano with John Byrne and composition with Paul Whitmarsh.
Having established a reputation as an outstanding and versatile chamber musician, Julian has performed as part of the prestigious Manson Ensemble under the batons of maestros Ryan Wigglesworth and Jonathan Berman.
A keen composer, Julian had his first book of original compositions published at the age of 6, and has had numerous works premiered by the Wells Cathedral School Symphony Orchestra and New Music Ensemble