Dr. Sarah Chan engages a rich contribution in the musical arts as concert pianist, professor, research scholar, and artist-teacher whose experience and expertise integrates strength of disciplinary focus, breadth of cross­disciplinary understanding, and engagement of wide-reaching interdisciplinary interests.

Winner of The American Prize in Piano Performance; PianoTexas International Festival Professional Prize; U.S. Presidential Scholar Distinguished Teacher Award; California State University-Stanislaus Outstanding Professor Faculty Award; California State University-Stanislaus Outstanding Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity Faculty Award; the Eastman School of Music Award for Excellence in Teaching; and the CAPMT Outstanding Member State Recognition Award, Sarah Chan maintains a strong commitment to creative, pedagogical, scholarly, and professional excellence.

As international concert pianist, Sarah Chan has performed throughout North America, Europe, Asia, and South America, including at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Berlin Philharmonic Hall, National Philharmonic of Ukraine, Teatro Municipal de Las Condes-Chile, Salle Cortot-Paris, La Cité Internationale des Arts-Paris, St. James Piccadilly-London, Künstlerhaus-Munich, Sala Atenu-Romania, Beifang Performing Arts Hall, and Ningxia Normal University Concert Hall. She has appeared as concerto soloist with the MÁV Symphony Orchestra Budapest, National “Mihail Jara” Philharmonic of Romania, Orquesta Sinfónica Universidad Mayor, New York Concert Artists Symphony Orchestra, Manhattan Chamber Orchestra, Seattle Philharmonic Orchestra, Fort Worth Symphony, and Enid Symphony Orchestra. Chan’s solo CD album, “Portraits of France and Spain: Piano Music from Impressionism and National Romanticism to the Avant-Garde, 1880-1960”, is anticipated for release in 2026 with Dux recording label.

Dr. Chan currently serves as Coordinator of Keyboard Studies and Associate Professor of Music (Keyboard Studies/Music Theory) at California State University, Stanislaus. Her work engages multidimensional expertise in performance artistry, musical analysis, interdisciplinary arts, and music pedagogy in interpretive [historical/contemporary), creative (music improvisation/extemporized art), and interdisciplinary (music-STEM, music-visual-dramatic arts, music in the humanities) expressions of the arts.  Insight into her work may be gleaned through interviews on Ukrainian TV, at Berlin Fueilletonscout.com, and in her journal article, “Innovative Teaching Practices in 21st-c. Music Pedagogy”, Мистецтво та освіта (No. 3 (93) 2019), (Art and Education) (No. 3 (93) 2019), published in the international Ukrainian art and educational sciences journal founded the National Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine.

Dr. Chan has engaged numerous artist-teaching residencies across the U.S., as well as internationally in Ukraine, China, Chile, France, Canda, and remotely to Ghana.  In Ukraine, she was invited to share her methodologies in creative music teaching during the entirety of a two-day national Ukrainian music teachers’ conference hosted  the “Toloka” Center for Educational Initiatives, the University of Educational Management of the National Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine, and the Ukrainian Global School, along with a regional conference at the Mariupol Specialized School of Music.  In China, she served artist-teaching residencies at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, Beifang University of Nationalities, and Ningxia Normal University.  Residencies in South America includes the Conservatorio de Música de Universidad Mayor in Chile, and North American residencies include the University of Lethbridge, California State University-Sacramento, Charleston Southern University, University of Central Missouri, Oklahoma City University, Erskine College, the International Music Festival, and Pacific Institute of Music.

Sarah Chan received her musical training at the Eastman School of Music (D.M.A.), Paris Conservatory of Music, Peabody Conservatory of Music (M.M.), Manhattan School of Music (B.M.), and the University of Michigan. She also engaged liberal arts studies with a concentration in French and French literature at the University of Michigan, Columbia University, and La Sorbonne.