Charity Chan: biography

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Charity Chan • Residence: Princeton, New Jersey, USA

Composer • Performer (piano, prepared piano, voice)

— Member of: Fenaison

Charity Chan’s live performances focus on the evocation of alternative timbres from the piano, and the combination of these sounds with more traditional performance techniques. The immediacy of physical gesture and collaborative communication are also strong influences in her improvisations. While her creative work is primarily in contemporary improvised music, she has also worked and studied extensively in the classical and contemporary classical idioms.

Charity has performed throughout Canada and in the United States. Collaborations and studies include: Lori Freedman, Anthony Martin, Steve Bagnell, Dave Chokroun, John Heward, Damon Smith, Gino Robair, Simon Rose, Fred Frith, Maggie Nichols, Frank Gratkowski, Jean Derome, Isaiah Ceccarelli, Nicolas Caloia, Joane Hétu, Danielle Palardy Roger, and Jack Wright.

As a member of the trio Fenaison (Kris Covlin, saxophones; Rémy Bélanger de Beauport, amplified cello), she is an Ambiances Magnétiques recording artist. Other recordings (as a collaborator) can be found on Tzadik and Innova Records. She has performed throughout the United States and Canada and has conducted several group workshops in improvisation.

Her academic research approaches music from a socio-cultural perspective, and focuses on embodiment, ethics and legitimacy, and cultural memory in improvisation. She is a member of the International Society of Improvising Musicians and the American Musicological Society. Her academic work has been presented at the Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium (University of Guelph), the International Society for Improvised Music (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor), University of British Columbia, and the University of Kansas.

Charity holds a Bachelor of Music degree from McGill University and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Contemporary Improvisation from Mills College. In the fall of 2008, she began her PhD studies in musicology at Princeton University.

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Charity Chan: biography

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