CHAN, Ruth

Ruth Chan is a British Chinese composer for theatre, film, television and concert music. She began her career as a pianist, studied music at the University of Oxford, and later completed a Master’s degree in Composition for Screen at the Royal College of Music. Her work frequently combines classical, contemporary and electronic approaches with cross-cultural influences. mosaic-arts-collective.webflow.io
Her theatre and stage credits include The Jungle Book at Chichester Festival Theatre, The Doncastrian Chalk Circle for the National Theatre, The Hatchling, Between Constellations, Turandot Reimagined, Mokita, From the Top, and Piccadilly Revisited. She has also composed for dance and opera projects and has worked on film and television productions. mosaic-arts-collective.webflow.io
In 2019 Chan composed the music for the Royal Shakespeare Company’s gender-reversed production of The Taming of the Shrew. For that production she researched women composers of the Renaissance and early Baroque, including Maddalena Casulana, Francesca Caccini and Vittoria Aleotti, and incorporated this historical perspective into the musical concept of the production.