Ruth Chan

Ruth read music at Oxford University, where she specialised in orchestration and composition. She continued her education at the Royal College of Music, obtaining a Masters in Composition for Screen, where she studied with leading film composers such as Patrick Doyle, Gabriel Yared, Joseph Horovitz and Dario Marianelli. Ruth’s concert commissions include two suites of Children’s Songs, choral work Lament for Ying of the Nine Declarations and As in a Dream for Chinese and Western instruments where it recently premièred at the West Road Concert Hall in Cambridge. Her composition Piccadilly Revisited is a contemporary multimedia piece with silent film that was performed at the Royal Opera House, the Thames Festival, Hong Kong Arts Festival 2011 and in Beijing as part of the UK Now Festival 2