CHAN, Heidi

Heidi Chan is an Australian composer, pianist and music educator associated with Brisbane and the University of Queensland. She studied composition and performance at the University of Queensland, where she received the Bachelor of Music Merit Scholarship and later graduated with First Class Honours. In 2017 she was among the composers commissioned to create new works in response to the University of Queensland Art Museum exhibition The Dust Never Settles. News
Her work often engages with environmental and interdisciplinary themes. Chan has explored eco-musicology, the relationship between music, environment and society, and the use of sonification to transform scientific data into musical material. She has also been involved in music education and young-composer initiatives in Australia. APPC
In 2019 she served as Young Composer Awards Coordinator for the Australasian Piano Pedagogy Conference, where she was identified as a University of Queensland medallist and APRA member.