Christopher Chan
Cello


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Bio
Christopher Josin Chan joined the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra cello section in 2024. Originally from Toronto, Canada, he was a former cello fellow in the New World Symphony. He received his Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Toronto and a Master of Music degree from the University of Michigan where he graduated as part of the Phi Kappa Phi honor society. His primary teachers include Shauna Rolston, Joseph Johnson, and Richard Aaron. He has also worked extensively with the Gryphon Trio, Calidore Quartet and Alban Gerhardt.
As an avid orchestral musician, he has performed with the Ann Arbor Symphony, Canadian Sinfonietta, New World Symphony and Vancouver Symphony. He has served as principal cellist for the University of Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the University of Michigan Symphony Orchestra, the Colorado College Summer Festival Orchestra, the Aspen Conducting Academy and the New World Symphony. In addition to his orchestral experience, Christopher is an alumna of Meadowmount School of Music, Orford Music Festival, LyricaFest and Domaine Forget Academy. He has also played in master classes and lessons for Julia Lichten, Laurence Lesser, Paul Katz, Eric Kim, and Philippe Muller.
Committed to fostering the next generation of musicians, Christopher maintains a cello studio across Canada and the United States where his private students have gone on to attend the New
York Youth Symphony’s Chamber Music Program, Meadowmount School of Music, Young Artist program of Tanglewood Institute and Heifetz International Music Institute. He has also served as a teaching assistant to Shauna Rolston during the last two years of his undergraduate studies and to Julia Lichten at the Meadowmount School of Music.
Christopher plays on a David Wiebe cello, generously loaned by Shauna Rolston Shaw.