Elim Chan

Director de orquesta

director de orquesta Chan, una de las artistas más solicitadas de su generación, encarna el espíritu del liderazgo orquestal contemporáneo con su precisión cristalina y su fervor expresivo.

In May 2026 she became Music Director Designate of the San Francisco Symphony and assumes the Music Director post from the 2027/28 season. She was also recently appointed Artistic Partner with the Wiener Symphoniker for the 2026/27 and 2027/28 seasons, following her residency as Portrait Artist at the Musikverein in 2022/23. She served as Principal Conductor of the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra from 2019 to 2024 and Principal Guest Conductor of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra from 2018 to 2023.

Elim Chan makes her Berliner Philharmoniker debut in 2026/27, alongside first appearances with the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Dallas Symphony Orchestra, and NHK Symphony Orchestra. She also makes her staged opera debut conducting John Adams’ Doctor Atomic at the Zurich Opera House in a new production.

Recent debuts and upcoming re-invitations include leading orchestras such as the Staatskapelle Berlin, Sächsische Stattskapelle Dresden, Munich Philharmonic, Bamberg Symphony, London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Boston Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, and Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra.

director de orquesta camisa blanca, concentrada, sosteniendo una batuta el brazo extendido — Elim Chan dirigirá a la Filarmónica de Los Ángeles en el Hollywood Bowl con la obra «Scheherazade» el jul del 2024.

Elim Chan has appeared at both the Lucerne and Salzburg festivals and conducted the First Night of the Proms with the BBC Symphony Orchestra in 2024, returning in 2025 to conduct the Last Night of the Proms. With the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, she recorded All These Lighted Things for Alpha Classics, pairing the titular Elizabeth Ogonek work with music by Prokofiev and Ravel.

Nacida en Hong Kong, Elim Chan estudió en el Smith College de Massachusetts y en la Universidad de Michigan. En el 2014, se convirtió en la primera mujer ganadora del Concurso de Dirección Donatella Flick y pasó a la temporada 2015/16 como director de orquesta adjunta director de orquesta en la Orquesta Sinfónica de Londres, donde trabajó estrechamente con Valery Gergiev. En la temporada siguiente, Elim Chan se incorporó al programa Dudamel Fellowship de la Filarmónica de Los Ángeles. También debe mucho al apoyo y estímulo de Bernard Haitink, a cuyas clases magistrales asistió en Lucerna en el 2015.