Christine Pan : Associate Artist
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Random Audio Sample: Motions of Equinox : for solo harp by Christine Pan, from the CD Motions of Equinox |
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Christine Pan (she/they) is a Sydney-based composer known for her versatility in style and malleability in form. Her passion for powerful storytelling through music spans into various areas of gaming, science, healthcare, film and theatre.
Pan's compositions have been featured by WASO, Ensemble Offspring, Goldner Quartet, Musica Viva as well as ABC Classic, and has showcased her works throughout Europe and the U.S. She has been shortlisted in renowned competitions including Kaleidoscope and the Matt Wither's Composition Competition.
Pan started her career as game music composer
with No Moss Studios while she was completing her undergraduate
study in Composition at Sydney Conservatorium of Music.
During the pandemic, she was a resident
composer for LiverpoolPalliative Care Unit writing music for
patients and staff and has contributed to research by University
of Wollongong and LGBTIQ+ Health Australia in this area.
Interested in multi-sensory concert
experiences, she has also curated her concert of solo chamber
works inspired and paired with five different types of tea. The
series has since developed into
Tea Break, series of Concerts in Moana Hall,
WA in collaboration with Tenth Muse Initiative for Fringe World
2022 and won the best music award category. Orchestra Victoria
performed her musical adaptation of the trans picture
book, Introducing Teddy, as part of Midsumma Festival Season 2022 and 2023 in both
metropolitan and regional Victoria, and most recently, as part of
ChillOut festival in 2024.
Pan has been
involved in more than eight theatre productions since delving
into theatre in 2022. Christine won the Best Sound Design and
Composition of an Independent Theatre Production Sydney Theatre
award for
Moon Rabbit Rising and made her musical
directorial debut for The
Village at Joan Sutherland Performing
Arts Centre in collaboration with Q Theatre.
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra just premiered a newly commissioned work on Jan 30th 2024 as part of the Cybec Music and Ideas program. She is excited to be a part of ANAM Set this year to work with Brisbane-born clarinettist Dario Scalabrini. Pan also leads her own piano quintet, Somnus Quintet, and frequently performs at international conventions.
Pan is still currently working in theatre and with SLHD and Arterie to develop more music residencies at hospitals.
Christine Pan — current to March 2024
Awards & Prizes
Year | Award | Placing | Awarded for |
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2022 | Sydney Theatre Awards - Best Sound Design and Composition of an Independent Production | Wnner | Moon Rabbit Rising |
Selected Commissions
Work | Commission Details | |
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Infused with Silent Voices : for flute, vibraphone, guitar and cello (2023) | Commissioned by Ensemble Offspring. | |
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Motions of Equinox : for solo harp (2022) | Motions of Equinox was commissioned by the ABC Classic Composer Commissioning Fund 2021 |
Motions of Equinox I. Blind Euphoria : harp solo (2022) | Commissioned by ABC Classics. | |
Motions of Equinox II. Nostalgia for Celestial Bodies : harp solo (2022) | Commissioned by ABC Classics. | |
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Shadow Work : solo viola (2021) | Composed for WASO Composition Project 2021 |
Chronicles of the Ego : for string quartet (2020) | Commissioned by Geoff Stearn for performance by Musica Viva Australia. |