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Charlie Chan (born 2 January 1966) is an Australian pianist/composer best known for her original, mostly instrumental music albums and for creating numerous soundtracks for the stage and screen. Having studied piano, guitar, double bass, orchestration and computer-based music technology in her childhood, Chan’s public career began in the 1990s with a series of original jazz, classical, improvisation and world-music inspired albums on the Sony Masterworks classical label. At this time, she gained a reputation for blending acoustic and electronic music, while pioneering an Australian artist’s use of multimedia technologies and the internet.〔Cal Clugston, "Arts Heart & Evolution", Revolver magazine. ''(Archived copy )''〕 Since the early 2000s, Chan has been regularly commissioned to compose soundtracks for feature films, television series, documentaries and stage productions. Highlights include soundtracks for feature film Me Myself I, long-running television drama McLeod's Daughters, and the 2011 Australian television crime-drama series Killing Time starring David Wenham. Charlie Chan composes on her primary instrument – a 97-key Bosendorfer Imperial Grand 290 piano, and records in her HD 3 studio, combining state-of-the-art technology with collectable vintage microphones and recording equipment. She has been awarded Best Music Performance at the Melbourne Fringe Festival, along with being nominated for two APRA (Australian Performing Rights Assoc.) Awards for Best Music for a Television Series and Best Film Score, and three AGSC (Australian Guild of Screen Composers)〔(Australian Guild of Screen Composers )〕 nominations for Best Soundtrack Album, Best Music for a Feature Film, and Best Music for a Documentary.〔 Charlie’s live concert appearances include the State Theatre Sydney and Melbourne Town Hall. She performed at the Sydney Opera House in the mid-1990s for the first online live broadcast of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras annual event launch. == Early years and musical influences == The child of a Chinese-Malay father and Scottish-Australian mother, Chan was born and raised in Melbourne, Australia and grew up in the Dandenong area, 30 km from the city’s centre. She received a ukulele at age three which she took to immediately – a gift from her father’s employer, GM Holden, given to Charlie at the annual company Christmas party. Chan’s parents rewarded her musical interest with a Skylark acoustic guitar and music lessons when she turned five, and she soon began playing her uncle’s pianola and the piano shortly thereafter. Chan also taught herself drums and started her first band at eight years of age with friends at her local Catholic girls’ school. At this time, influences included those from her parent’s record collection – musicals such as My Fair Lady, Oklahoma and The Sound of Music, along with pop and jazz influences like Chicago, Simon & Garfunkel, The Carpenters, flugelhorn player Chuck Mangione and the Getz/Gilberto collaboration that featured their famous rendition of "The Girl from Ipanema". At the age of 12, Chan began work experience in a local Yamaha music store, gaining access to innovative instruments like the Yamaha CP70 electric grand piano along with drum kits and a Rhodes piano. A determined teenager by 13, she cajoled her school into buying a double bass and reached the classical training standard of Grade 7 within three years. It was at this time that Chan’s experience with music orchestration began. At the age of 14, she started work experience with Young Talent Time as a music copyist, approaching the production herself, and turning up repeatedly until she was offered an ongoing role. Chan auditioned for and was accepted by three highly regarded music-focused schools at age 15 – the Victorian College of the Arts, Blackburn High School and University High School – opting to attend the latter. By 15, Chan had furthered her orchestration experience by composing and/or arranging music for small ensembles of up to 15 musicians at school, along with drama and music camps. One of Chan’s early major orchestration assignments at drama camp was for a stage adaption of the novel They Shoot Horses Don’t They?. Originally named Maryann Chan at birth, she was "christened" Charlie Chan around this time by friends at a drama camp. The name stuck. As Chan grew into adulthood, the musical influences that stayed with her included an eclectic range: from classical greats Mahler, Smetana and Wagner, through contemporary composer/artists Laurie Anderson, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Philip Glass and Keith Jarrett, to world-renowned Pakistani musician Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and experimental pop artists like David Sylvian (and his band Japan), Grace Jones and Peter Gabriel. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Charlie Chan (composer)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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