JEREMY CHAN

JEREMY CHAN is a freelance Australian pianist and vocal coach based in New York City. A versatile musician with a flair for improvisation, he loves collaborating with artists who sing, play, and dance. 

Jeremy is on the artistic staff at Juilliard and the Manhattan School of Music (MSM), and serves as Director of Music at Advent Lutheran Church. His “superb” playing has been praised for its “shimmer, mystery, and ease” (Classical Singer Magazine), and for “summoning about as much color as can possibly be coaxed out” (New York Classical Review). 

Jeremy’s 2024-25 season includes productions of Rinaldo and An American Dream at MSM, Le Nozze di Figaro at Chautauqua; performances at Carnegie Hall and Scandinavia House; and appearances with the Brooklyn Art Song Society and the Isadora Duncan Dance Foundation. A passionate advocate for diversity in the arts, Jeremy currently serves as Vice President of the Asian Opera Alliance, and Advocacy Engagement Officer for Wear Yellow Proudly. His writing on Asian representation in opera has been published in the Opera America magazine.

Previous engagements include West Side Story with Opera Australia, the 2017 China tour of Bright Sheng's Dream of the Red Chamber, over 40 opera productions around the United States, including Britten's A Midsummer Night’s Dream (MSM and Juilliard) and Ariadne auf Naxos (Lakes Area Music Festival). He has played at National Sawdust, Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York University, Columbia University, London’s Wigmore Hall, Trinity Church Wall St, Merkin Hall, and other major venues around the globe, including in Boston, Washington, D.C., Toronto, Vancouver, Salzburg, Sydney, Melbourne, Venice, Beijing, Shanghai, Wuhan and Changsha.

Especially adept in contemporary opera, Jeremy has served as music director for Juilliard Opera Lab, American Opera Projects, and Justine Chen’s Seven Sisters workshop. Jeremy sat on the selection committee for the Steinway & Sons 2019 Junior Piano Competition and on the peer review committee for the 2020 and 2024 Arts Fund with the American Australian Association.

After over six years of performing together as a duo, during the pandemic, Jeremy established the Vertex Duo with mezzo-soprano Kristin Gornstein and released their first studio collaboration "Still", available on all streaming platforms. The duo recorded their second album, “joy, too”, of all-contemporary music at Sun Hill Studio in Yellow Barn, Vermont with multiple Grammy award winning producer Judith Sherman, released August 2024. Jeremy also appears on the NAXOS label.

A highly sought after audition pianist for opera companies, competitions, conductors, managers, and opera singers, Jeremy has served as official pianist for the distinguished Naumburg 2020-21 International Vocal Competition, and the New York City auditions for Aspen Opera Center, Wolf Trap Opera, inter alia. 

As a chamber musician, Jeremy has performed with the American String Quartet and the Hector del Curto Quintet. Jeremy sat on the selection committee for the Steinway & Sons 2019 Junior Piano Competition and on the peer review committee for the 2020 and 2024 Arts Fund with the American Australian Association.

In high demand as a choral accompanist, Jeremy is Principal Pianist with Choirs of America for their NYC concerts at Stern Auditorium, Carnegie Hall and David Geffen Hall, and collaborates regularly with Cantori New York, Every Voice Choirs, NY Choral Society, Manhattan Concert Productions, playing for conductors including Z. Randall Stroope, Dillo Rolworth, Karen Kennedy, Jason Max Ferdinand, Anton Armstrong,  André Thomas, Coty Raven Morris, Rene Clausen, Josh Habermann, Doreen Rao, Mark Shapiro, and Sandra Snow. Jeremy is the official accompanist for the Central City Chorus.

Jeremy received degrees from Queens College, Manhattan School of Music, and fellowships from Juilliard, Tanglewood, Georg Solti Accademia, Aspen Music Festival, Toronto Summer Music Festival, and the Vancouver International Song Institute.

Outside of music, he revels in yoga, tea, and food adventures. Follow Jeremy @jeremychanpiano and jeremychanpiano.com.

Updated August 2025