Josephine Chan

COUNTRY—United States
AGE—16

 

 

Josephine Chan is a junior at Stanford Online High School and currently studies piano performance with Elizabeth Schumann. She is also a scholarship student at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, studying chamber music with Joseph Maile and Amy Zanrosso and conducting with Stefano Flavoni. She was featured on NPR’s From the Top and was invited to participate in the 2019 Junior Van Cliburn Competition and Festival. She was also a quarter-finalist in the International e-Piano Junior Competition 2019. She has been a prizewinner of both national and international piano competitions, including the Henry and Carol Zeiter Piano Competition (2020), Golden State Youth Orchestra Concerto Competition (2018), Virginia Waring International Piano Competition (2015), Pacific Music Society Competition, Enkor International Piano Competition (2015) and San Francisco Chopin Foundation Competition (2012).

Josephine’s most recent performances include a concerto recital with the Golden State Youth Orchestra as part of their 2019 Lunar New Year Celebration Concert in Flint Center and a solo recital at the Century Club of California. Josephine also performs regularly in a trio, and her group placed first in the Jane Hohfeld Galante Chamber Music Competition and the American Prize Chamber Performance Competition. Josephine has attended programs such as the Music@Menlo, PianoTexas Young Artists Program, Tanglewood Young Artists Program, Perugia Music Fest, and Southeastern Piano Festival. She has performed in numerous master classes with many artists, including Yoheved Kaplinsky, Emile Naoumoff, Arie Vardi, Bernd Goetzke, Tamás Ungár, Uta Weyand, AnneMarie McDermott, and Garrick Ohlsson.

In her spare time, Josephine enjoys drawing, watching movies, and riding roller coasters.

REPERTOIRE

ROUND I     Tuesday 1:30 pm  

Bach – Prelude and Fughetta in D minor, BWV 899
Bach – Art of Fugue: Contrapunctus No. 9 n D minor, BWV 1080
Mozart – Sonata No. 18 in D major, K. 576
Debussy – L’isle joyeuse, L.106 

ROUND II      Thursday 12:30 pm

Mendelssohn – Variations rieuses in D minor, Op. 54
Schubert – Impromptu No. 3 in G-flat major, Op. 90
Ligeti – Étude No. 13 L’escalier du diable  

ROUND III Concerto 

Chopin – Concerto No. 2 in F minor, Op. 21