THEATER MUSIC
TELL ME WHAT YOU SEE
Book and lyrics by Keelay Gipson. Music by Marc Chan. A 10-minute musical about a Queen, her mirror, one’s self-image and ultimately, a fable about learning to love yourself.
REMEMBER ME
Book and lyrics by Mia Chung. Lyrics and music by Marc Chan. A work-in-progress about the Korean War, the aftermath, and its ghosts.
PICK UP!
Music and lyrics by Marc Chan. Book by Marcus Scott. A Zoom musical. This is the opening number: It’s in the early days of the COVID pandemic. Two siblings (Kristina and Michael) are trying desperately to get in touch with their sibling (Jason) using all electronic means possible … after they find a will that Jason has posted online.
THE KID
Book, music and lyrics by Marc Chan. Based on the classic 1921 silent movie by Charlie Chaplin.
YOU CAN BE
(ANYONE YOU WANT TO BE)
Book, music and lyrics by Marc Chan. A song that teaches kids about the water cycle, using characters from Disney’s Frozen.
I AM ODD
Music and lyrics by Marc Chan. Based on a poem by 10 year old Ben Giroux, who writes about the isolation caused by his autism.
FLY AWAY
Music and lyrics by Marc Chan.
EMILY
Book, lyrics and music by Marc Chan. Based on the life of Emily Dickinson.
I’M GOING PLACES
Music and lyrics by Marc Chan. Sung by a bubble who wants to see the world, even though her entire family (of soap bubbles) thinks it’s a really bad idea for a bubble to leave the safety of the bath tub.
I CAN BE WHOEVER YOU WANT
Music and lyrics by Marc Chan. An audition song to end all audition songs. Sung by an actor who really, really, REALLY wants the job.
GEORGE
Book and lyrics by Sam Wessels. Music by Marc Chan. Based on a book by Alex Gino. A work-in-progress full-length musical about a transgender middle school kid named George who knows that deep down inside, she’s really a girl.
YOU AND ME
Book and lyrics by Barbara Hammond. Book and music by Marc Chan. A full-length musical about two women Katherine and Nicole, tracing the day they met and their reunion, some 20 years later. On the surface, it’s a story about their decades-long friendship, but at its core, it’s a Proustian retrieval of lost time. Each scene alternates between the younger and older pair: this cross-cutting intensifies as past and present collide, allowing for futures to be reimagined and rewritten.
CONCERT MUSIC
Piano
PLAYING SCHUMANN
For solo piano. Written for and performed by pianist Evan Kory.
DIE KUNST DER DISNEY
12 fugues for solo piano based on classic Disney tunes. Performed by pianists Benjamin Steinhardt and Evan Kory.
MY WOUNDED HEAD 3
My Wounded Head 3 is a 70+ minutes-long piano piece released on Mode Records in 2016. Written for and performed by pianist Rob Haskins.
MY WOUNDED HEAD 1
My Wounded Head 1 was written for pianist Xiayin Wang. Recorded live at Carnegie Hall.
PLAYING BRAHMS
In two movements. Written for pianist Ann DuHamel.
DR. BRAHMS’S BOOK OF RAGS (2020)
A collection of 16 rags based on Brahms’s Sixteen Waltzes op. 39. Written for pianist Ann DuHamel, and funded by a University of Minnesota Imagine Fund Award.
Prepared Piano
Electronic
Voice
Small Ensemble
After Holst
AFTER HOLST was commissioned by Suzanne Corey-Sahlin for the Ridgefield Symphony Orchestra String Quartet, and premiered by them at the Aldrich Museum.
J’S BOX
For five oboes, clarinet, 2 violins, cello and piano.
FOR EVERY DEED, A DURATION
For viola and piano.
THE HISTORY OF FLIGHT
For flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano.