Based in New York,  Taiwanese composer Ya-Lan Chan was recently awarded the Manhattan Prize for her string quartet Sand aSH, and also a finalist for the Mivos Kanter String Quartet Composition Prize. Ya-Lan has been active in attending music festivals and workshops, such as Nong Project in Seoul, Etchings Festival, Darmstadt Music Festival, Yarn/Wire institute, Unheard-of ensemble workshop, and Lorreto project with Longleash. She also participated in masterclasses with Beat Furrer, Frank Bedrossian, François Sarhann, Milica Djordjevic, Jason Eckardt, Zosha di Castri and Wang Lu. Ya-Lan is becoming more interested in the creative process of music-making, especially in exploring the relationship between technology and human and how these two shaped each other during the time. She collaborated with various artistic mediums and had done so with animation, poetry, dancing, and lighting design.

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        Ya-Lan holds a D.M.A. in composition from Manhattan School of music where she was awarded the Saul Braverman Award in Music Theory as well as degrees from Taipei National University of the Arts (B.A.) Previously, she was appointed coordinator of theory tutoring program at Manhattan School of Music, where she served as a teaching fellow in the College theory department. She studied with Reiko Füting and Susan Botti during her graduate studies in the United States and with Tsung-Hsien Yang and Wan-Jen Huang in Taiwan. Her study has been supported by the Taiwan Ministry of Education.