Elim Chan

Hong Kong-born Elim Chan is regarded as one of the younger generation of promising conductors. She studied in the United States at Smith College, Massachusetts and at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. In 2014, Elim Chan was the first woman to win the Donatella Flick Conducting Competition, enabling her to spend a year as assistant conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra during the 2015/16 season and to cooperate with Valery Gergiev. During the 2016/17 season she was a Fellow on the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Dudamel Fellowship Program. She has Bernard Haitink to thank for key artistic ideas after taking his masterclasses in Lucerne in 2015.

From 2019 to 2024 Elim Chan was chief conductor of the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra and from 2018 to 2023 principal guest conductor of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Highlights of her 2024/25 season include two concert tours with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra as well as repeat performances with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, Wiener Symphoniker, Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Sydney Symphony Orchestra. She is also debuting with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia and Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. Previous debuts include working with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Staatskapelle Berlin, Staatskapelle Dresden, the London-based Philharmonia Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris and Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra.