VC ARTIST

Hong Kong-born Chinese violinist and VC Artist Angela Chan has found success both as a soloist and a chamber musician. She is the winner of 2024 Hannover Joseph Joachim Violin Competition and recipient of the prize for the best interpretation of commissioned work, first prize and winner of the best interpretation of concerto prize in the 2017 Louis Spohr Violin Competition, and laureate of the Singapore International Violin Competition and Shanghai Issac Stern International Competition. Founder and violinist of the AYA piano trio, the trio has won first prize at the WDAV Chamber Music Competition and Yellow Spring Chamber Competition. Angela is emerging as one of the most unique and polished violinists of her generation.

As a soloist, Angela has appeared with numerous orchestras including NDR Radiophilharmonie, the Staatskapelle Weimar Orchestra of Germany, Singapore Symphony Orchestra, China Philharmonic, and the Hong Kong Symphonia. In 2016, Angela was selected as a soloist to tour around the states with The Curtis Chamber Orchestra. She has held many recitals in various cities such as Boston, Washington DC, Philadelphia, Rhode Island, Hong Kong, Beijing, Xiamen, and Guizhou.

As an active chamber musician, Angela has collaborated with renowned artists such as Nobuko Imai, Ning Feng, Phillip Setzer, Hsinyun Huang, Peter Wiley, Gary Hoffman, and Marcy Rosen. Angela’s festival appearances include Heifetz Institute of Music as Artist-in-Residence, Verbier Festival Academy, Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, and Marlboro Chamber Music Festival.

Born in Hong Kong, Angela started playing the violin at the age of 3 under her mother. She continued her violin studies with Michael James Ma at Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts, Vera WeiLing Tsu in Beijing, China, and Shmuel Ashkenasi, Pamela Frank, and Aaron Rosand at the Curtis Institute of Music. With full scholarship granted, she received her master’s degree with Donald Weilerstein at the New England Conservatory of Music. She is currently an Artist-in-Residence at the Queen Elizabeth Music Chapel in Belgium, working with Augustin Dumay.

Angela is the first awardee of the Music and Dance Distinguished Performance Commendation Scheme of the Hong Kong Arts Development Council, and the scholarship recipient of the Hong Kong Jockey Club Music and Dance fund and the Lin Yao Ji Foundation.