Music
Charlie Chan is a pianist, multi-instrumentalist, recording artist and composer.
Charlie has myriad screen and stage musical credits. These include:
- soundtracks for Killing Time (2011’s most anticipated Australian drama series starring David Wenham),
- Me Myself I (feature film starring Rachel Griffiths),
- high rating Australian television staples McLeod’s Daughters and Australian Story,
- acclaimed Sydney Theatre Company play Gift of the Gorgon and
- numerous free-to-air, National Geographic and Discovery Channel documentaries including Addiction, The Last Warriors, Persons of Interest
- and many more.
A multi-instrumentalist and recording artist, Charlie has released three critically celebrated solo albums on her own label in partnership with the Sony Masterworks classical label and Sony Music Publishing:
- “The Adventures of Charlie Chan” (1993),
- “East and West” (1996) and
- “Wild Swans” (1998).
Charlie’s music is wonderfully diverse, exploratory and adventurous. Always with due consideration for the composition at hand, it takes in classical piano and minimalist figures, ambient soundscapes, globally inspired tribal folk music, jazz trio improvisation, and world-pop styled music.
Albums & Recordings
A very Charlie Chan Christmas
2011
A tiny bit of Christmas fun featuring Australian Performer and Composer Charlie Chan & friends!
Free download
Ho Ho Ho!
Wild Swans
1998
‘Brilliant Songs, Radical Ambience, Exotic Global Rhythms’
Lesley Sly - Soundscapes
East and West
1996
‘Inspired improvised piano works, evocatively incorporating elements of jazz, new age and classical music’
Ed St. John, Sunday Telegraph
The Adventures of Charlie Chan
1993
'An amazingly mature debut from a young Australian musician that defies all boundries, shatters musical categories and constantly takes the listener by surprise.'
Lynden Barber - Sydney Morning Herald