SHI-AN’S CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

(IN BULLET POINTS)

 

Notable venues and presenters (spanning all genres and disciplines):

• Ear Taxi Festival at Harris Theater

• Chapelle Historique du Bon-Pasteur

• La Musée de beaux-arts de Montréal

• La Muse Héritage Musical at Oscar Peterson Hall

• Pianoforte Salon Series and LIVE! Series

• Writers Theatre

• Fulcrum Point Discovery Series

• Innovations en Concert Relèves en concert

• Chicago Soundings

• Music for Food

• Center for New Music

• Chicago Presents and Impromptu Festival of New Music Chicago

• Chicago Fringe Festival

• Fierce Productions at Stage 773

• Victory Gardens

• Chicago Cultural Center

• Cathédrale Christ Church

• the Green Mill

• the Jazz Showcase

• NON:Op

• Asian Improv Arts Midwest

• Chicago Composer`s Consortium

• High Concept Labs

• Experimental Sound Studio

• Frequency Series and Frequency Festival at Constellation

• Fifth Floor Collective

• Journées de la Culture Montréal

• Equilibrium Series

• Mise-en place

• Café L’artère

• L’envers and The Plant

• Spectrum

• the Lilypad

• Array Music

• Sala Rossa

• Salonathon at Beauty Bar

• Davenport’s Piano Bar

• Red Moon Productions

 

Shi-An has been a featured guest artist at the following festivals and institutions:

• Laboratoire de Musique Contemporaine de Montréal

• Scotia Chamber Music Festival

• Omaha Under the Radar at KANEKO

• Boston Conservatory at Berklee

• University of Calgary

• University of Toronto

• University of Ottawa

• McGill University

• Lake Forest College

• Northwestern University

• Conservatoire de Musique de Montréal

• University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

 

Shi-An’s notated scores have been commissioned by:

• Chromic Duo

• Access Contemporary Music

• High Concept Labs

• Brianna Matzke and The Response Project

• Marina Kifferstein

• Sarah Albu

• Francis Yun

• Jonathan Hannau

 

Shi-An’s notated music has been performed by:

• Sandra Wright Shen

• Dal Niente

•  International Contemporary Ensemble (I.C.E.)

• Timepoint Ensemble

• Conservatoire de musique de Lausanne

• ThingNY

• Thin Edge New Music Collective

 

Shi-An, as a pianist, has premiered new works by:

• Danny Clay

• Viet Cuong

• Aeryn Santillan

• Keith Kusterer

• Marina Kifferstein

• Jonathan Hannau

• David Reminick

• morgan krauss

• Jimmie Leblanc

• Marielle Groven

• Kurt Isaacson

• Sebastian Huydts

• Dorothy Chan

• Daniel Larrain Vial

• Elliott Lupp

• Nicolas Hyatt

• Clifton Ingram

• Jeffrey Levin

• Michal Massoud

• Mike Flynn

• Alexandra Fol

• Dominique Lafortune

• Anthony Donofrio

• Jacob Gotlib

• Brian Penkrot

 

Shi-An worked directly with the following composers:

• Frederic Rzewski

• Philippe Leroux

• Jerome Kitzke

• James O’Callaghan

• Serge Provost

• Ana Paola Santillan Alcocer

• Alex Temple

• Eliza Brown

• Keeril Makan

• Marti Epstein

• Anthony Cheung

• David Grant

• Chris Paul Harman

• John Rea

• Amy Wurtz

• Kota Nakamura

• Ofer Pelz

• Christopher Wendell Jones

• Paul Pinto

• Damian Rodriguez Kees

• George Flynn

• Mischa Salkind-Pearl

• Duncan Schouten

• Lukas Schulze

• Andy Vores

• Ben Hjertmann

• Thomas Carr

• Kirsten Volness

• Shawn Allison

• Sixto Franco

• Stephen Allan Rogers

• Kristin Bolstad

 

Shi-An has received generous project support from:

• Conseil des Arts du Canada

• Foundation for Contemporary Arts

• Chicago Department of Cultural and Special Events

• Cliff Dwellers Club

• Amphion Foundation

• The Walder Foundation

 

Shi-An has worked as an accompanist / collaborative pianist for:

• Interlochen Center for the Arts

• the percussion Area of Schulich School of Music

• the vocal department of North Park University

• instrumental programs at DePaul University and Roosevelt University

• the Music Theater Training Academy of New Music School

• the vocal competition of Lyric Opera of New York

• the DePaul Concerto Competition

• Midwest Young Artists Program Competition

• various regional, state and national competitions and festivals

 

LAST UPDATE: 9/22/2021