Chan Yoong-Han is the Fixed Fourth Chair First Violinist of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, and Concertmaster of the Singapore Festival Orchestra. Born in a musical family where his father Chan Yong Shing taught him violin from the age of five, his teachers include Beryl Kimber, Sergiu Luca and Charles Treger. He is a graduate of the University of Adelaide, Rice University and the University of Massachusetts. He has also studied with David Cerone, Kenneth Goldsmith, Kurt Sassmannshauss and the late Dorothy Delay.

Yoong-Han won Second Prize in the 1994 Corpus Christi International Young Artist Competition (USA), the Bach Prize in the Adelaide Estedffod and Iris Colley Sonata Prize (Australia). In America, he received the Dorothy Richard Starling Award, Livingston Prize in Violin, Mullen Music Scholarship and Hudspeth Music Scholarship. He emerged amongst the top three finalists at the 1987 Rolex Performance Awards (Singapore) when he was thirteen. In Singapore, he is the 2000 Shell-NAC Arts Scholar and winner of the 2004 NAC Young Artist Award, and a member of the Advisory Committee of the 2005 National Piano & Violin Competition.

As a soloist, Yoong-Han has appeared with Hungary’s Szeged Symphony Orchestra, Singapore Youth Orchestra (President’s Charity Concert), Singapore Chinese Orchestra, SAF Chinese Orchestra and with the SSO on several occasions, including the President’s Young Performers Concert. Conductors he has worked with include Erwin Arcel, Matthias Bamert and Han Zhong Jie. He has also performed in the Aspen Music Festival, Singapore Arts Festival, Adelaide Bach Festival, Cascade Head Music Festival, MusiConTema, Contemporary Music Ensemble and the Encore School for Strings. In 2003 he premiered the sextet version of Schoenberg’s Verkarte Nacht in Singapore. In 1998 he organized “Motifs in Murals”, a series of 8 recitals.