Alan Chan

Alan Chan’s genre-shaking works can be heard in an array of venues serving Classical (Taiwan National Concert Hall), experimental (the Stone, NYC) and jazz (Typhoon Restaurant at Santa Monica Airport), as well as conferences and festivals such as the International Jazz Festival Enschede and PASIC. The composer and bandleader of the 17-piece Alan Chan Jazz Orchestra, Alan has received awards and fellowships from ASCAP, ArtEZ (Netherlands), New Music USA, RTHK4 (Hong Kong), the Ucross Foundation and Percussive Arts Society (PAS), among others. His works are currently published by Keyboard Percussion Publications, HoneyRock, Meridian and Navona Records.

Etaoin Shrdlu
Alan writes: Etaoin Shrdlu Is an orchestral variation that was inspired by a non-sense phrase etaoin shrdlu, which appears on newspapers using “hot metal” typesetting – a “run down” of the keys on the Linotype keyboard when errors were made by the operator. Etaoin Shrdlu explores the possibilities of sound of the orchestra, spontaneity, freedom in form and errors.