From recitals at Ravinia Festival in Chicago, Jordan Hall in Boston, the Metropolitan Museum of Arts in NYC and The National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., to the University of Calgary Celebrity Series, and performances with the chamber orchestra, A Far Cry, performing Mozart at the Gardner Museum in Boston, the Newman Center in Denver and the Vilar Center in Beaver Creek, Colorado, Joel Fan has found an enthusiastic following that landed his first recording at No. 3 on the Billboard Classical Chart. Joel’s past appearances also include performances with Yo-Yo Ma with the New York Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, as well as performances with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, the New Hampshire Festival Orchestra, and the Singapore Philharmonic. He has worked with conductors such as Alan Gilbert, Zubin Mehta, David Alan Miller, Gustav Meier, and David Robertson, all the while traversing an ever-expanding repertoire of piano music. Playing composers such as Olivier Messiaen, Leon Kirchner, William Bolcom, Derek Bermel, Eliot Carter, Alexander Scriabin, Mozart, Beethoven, Gershwin and Rachmaninoff, and bringing to the fore music of the East and South America, Fan has been hailed by critics as having “uncanny technical skill…” (Washington Post) and as possessing playing that is “the picture of textural clarity,” and a “probing intellect and vivid imagination,” (New York Times).