Elaine Wan Chan

Elaine Wan Chan is a music composer and music director in Singapore.
Biography
Elaine started her first composition at the age of eight. She made her mark at 18, when she wrote her first full length musical score and toured South New Zealand with it, winning songwriting awards, including The Wong Yee Hua Memorial Award for musical excellence. Elaine later studied music composition in the University of Texas at Austin. She is currently conducting the ACS(I) IB Acapella Society, the Vocal ACcord.
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In 2005, Elaine was invited to write and direct original music for the National Day Parade, 2005 (NDP'05) for the celebration of the Singapore's 40th anniversary of Independence, and is to date the first female composer ever to do so.
Elaine is also a choral music and music theatre composer, arranger and director. Her credits in 2005 include Toy Factory’s Spring Singing, Selena Tan’s Wedding Concert, Singapore Management University’s Anything Goes, the Wild Rice Ball, a performance tour to conduct the NUSS Kent Ridge Guild House Chorus at the Forbidden City Concert Hall and ’s Sleeping Beauty She also taught in Fairfield Methodist Secondary School as a music teacher.
In 2013, Elaine was invited again to write a theme song for the National Parade with Selena Tan. The song was widely slammed by members of the public for being corny and cheesy even before the official release.

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