Born and raised in Hong Kong, Elly Chan made her orchestral debut at fifteen. She enrolled in a local music school at the age of twelve where she studied with Professor Joanna Li from Moscow Conservatory and was greatly influenced by her Russian piano pedagogy. Chan received her BMus degree with First-Class honour and completed her master degree with Distinction, specialising in Piano Studies under the supervision of Dr. Mark Hutchinson and Jakob Fichert. 

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Inspired by her former piano teacher Dr Xenia Pestova, Chan is interested in playing different genres from Bach to Kurtág. During her undergraduate study, Chan received performance scholarship from the School of Music. At the end of second year and final year, she was twice awarded the School of Music’s Overall Achievement Prize for the highest marks of her year. In her final year of undergraduate study, she has been awarded The Eric Morris Memorial Prize for Performance in which she was awarded the highest mark among all the recitalists. She was also the recipient of Dr John Robert Jones Prize, which is awarded annually to a student whose academic performance is judged to have been particularly meritorious in that year and is considered as the University's most prestigious prize. Chan won the School of Music annual concerto soloist competition, in which she was also the first freshman who has won in the competition. In the same year, she was one of the twelve finalists in the Llangollen International Eisteddfod’s Young Musicians Competition.

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- Masters of Art in Piano Studies (Distinction), University of York, United Kingdom.

- Bachelor of Music (1st Class Honour) , Bangor University, United Kingdom.

- LTCL in Piano Performance (Distinction), Trinity College London

- ABRSM Level 3 Certificate in Music Theory (Grade 8)

- Postgraduate Diploma in Education in Secondary Music, Hong Kong

- Piano Performance & Pedagogy, Late-Romantic to Present Keyboard Music

- Orchestration in Korean Ballad music

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- 本科以全級第一名畢業於英國班戈大學音樂系 (Bangor University, United Kingdom), 並為該系首位華裔學生取得Dr. JR Jones 奬學金

- 碩士以優等成績畢業於英國約克大學鋼琴系 (University of York, United Kingdom)

- 師隨新派鋼琴及作曲家Dr. Xenia Pestova , 亦是首位師隨Dr. Xenia Pestova 的華裔學生