Based in New York, Taiwanese composer Ya-Lan Chan is interested in the creative process of music-making, exploring the relationship between technology and humans, and how these two shaped each other. She also collaborated with various artistic mediums with animation, poetry, dancing, and lighting design. Recently awarded the winner of the Impulse New Music Festival 2024 New Voices competition, Ya-Lan has also been awarded the 2022 Manhattan Prize for her string quartet Sand aSH,  a finalist for the Mivos Kanter String Quartet Composition Prize, as well as commissions from the Percussion Ensemble at the Manhattan School of music, New Chamber Ballet. Ya-Lan has been active in attending music festivals and workshops, such as the Nong Project in Seoul, the 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. 

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        Ya-Lan holds a D.M.A. in composition from the 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 the theory tutoring program at the 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.