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Elim Chan makes her Berliner Philharmoniker debut in 2026/27, alongside first appearances with the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Dallas Symphony Orchestra, and NHK Symphony Orchestra. She also makes her staged opera debut conducting John Adams’s Doctor Atomic at Zurich Opera House in a new production.
Recent debuts and upcoming re-invitations include leading orchestras such as the Staatskapelle Berlin, Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, Munich Philharmonic, Bamberg Symphony, London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Boston Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, and Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra.
Elim Chan has appeared at both the Lucerne and Salzburg festivals, and conducted the First Night of the Proms with the BBC Symphony Orchestra in 2024, returning in 2025 to conduct the Last Night of the Proms. With the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, she recorded All These Lighted Things for Alpha Classics, pairing the titular Elizabeth Ogonek work with music by Prokofiev and Ravel.
Born in Hong Kong, Elim Chan studied at Smith College in Massachusetts and at the University of Michigan. In 2014, she became the first female winner of the Donatella Flick Conducting Competition and went on to spend her 2015/16 season as Assistant Conductor at the London Symphony Orchestra, where she worked closely with Valery Gergiev. In the following season, Elim Chan joined the Dudamel Fellowship program of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. She also owes much to the support and encouragement of Bernard Haitink, whose masterclasses she attended in Lucerne in 2015.
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