Twin/Tone Records

Chan Poling

After a start at 17 years of age studying music composition at Cal Arts under the mentorship of composer Harold Budd, collaborating with dancers (choreographer Donald Byrd, among others), animators, and painters, Chan began his pop musical career when his alternative rock band, The Suburbs, began recording albums for Polygram, A&M Records and Universal Music, becoming a touchstone of the “Minneapolis Sound”, and touring with many of the other seminal rock acts of the 1980’s. Chan continues to record and perform with the latest incarnation of that groundbreaking group.
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In 2005 Chan, John Munson, and Steve Roehm, founded the trio, The New Standards, who perform their unique jazzy spin on pop music in theaters and clubs around the world, whether with their large theatrical Holiday Show extravaganzas, performing with the world-class orchestras, holding court as a trio in intimate clubs like Joe’s Pub in NYC and the Dakota Jazz Club in Minneapolis, or entertaining corporate clients from Las Vegas to Shanghai with their big band, making a variety of albums, videos, animations, films, books, merchandise and friends along the way.

Chan's other great love is Musical Theater. A dedicated devotee of classic and pop music-theater styles, he has written the musical scores and songs for a variety of shows, including: The American Theatre Critics Association's "best new play" "Children of Paradise: Shooting a Dream" composed for the Tony Award-winning Theatre de la Jeune Lune, “Heaven”, commissioned by producer Kevin McCollum, and several shows written with the esteemed playwright Jeffrey Hatcher, including “Glensheen”, (winner of the Ivey Award for Overall Excellence, and voted "Best of the Decade" by the Mpls Star-Tribune), "Lord Gordon Gordon", the teen fantasy “A Night in Olympus”, "Jesse James" on the horizon for 2021, and "Heaven Can Wait", the iconic play by Harry Segall and basis of 2 hit movies, now in development as a Hatchling musical.

from Chan’s bio on the web

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