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Pianist-mathematician Elaine Chew was born in Buffalo, NY, raised in Singapore, and lives in London. A virtuoso pianist and frequent keynote speaker, Elaine often integrates lab-grown compositions and real-time scientific visualisations of music/physiology in her presentations. She has (co-)created avant garde compositions and improvisions; her arrhythmia music won an Unexpected Oscar for Best Original Music (BBC World Service). ARTE, BBC, Der Spiegel, LA Philharmonic, Le Monde have featured her work. Elaine studied piano (LTCL, FTCL), music performance/computational mathematics (BAS Stanford), operations research (SM, PhD MIT). She founded/directs the Music Theranostics Lab at King’s College London, where she researches music-heart interactions.
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Elaine Chew is an award-winning pianist and computational mathematician. Her arrhythmia music won an Unexpected Oscar for Best Original Music (BBC World Service) and her trailblazing research in digital music theranostics for cardiac electrophysiology was recognised by the Falling Walls Breakthrough of the Year 2023 (Art-Science). A pioneering/veteran music information researcher, she has (co-)created avant garde computer-assisted compositions/improvisations and state-of-the-art analytical/scientific visualisation systems for music and cardiovascular signals, which she integrates into her (lecture-)concerts. Her work has been featured on ARTE, BBC, Der Spiegel, LA Philharmonic, Le Monde. Elaine studied piano (LTCL, FTCL), music performance/computational mathematics (BAS Stanford), operations research (SM, PhD MIT). She is founder/director of the Digital Music Theranostics Lab in the School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences at King’s College London.
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Pianist-mathematician Elaine Chew was born in Buffalo, NY, raised in Singapore, and resides in London, after living in the US and France. A virtuoso pianist and frequent keynote speaker, Elaine often integrates lab-grown compositions and real-time scientific visualisations of music structures and performer-listener physiology in her presentations. She has (co-)created avant garde compositions/improvisions; her arrhythmia music won an Unexpected Oscar for Best Original Music (BBC World Service). Her work has been featured by ARTE, BBC, Der Spiegel, LA Philharmonic, Le Monde. She serves/has served on the advisory board of Computer Music Journal and scientific councils of IRCAM, MIT, and Georgia Tech. Elaine studied piano (LTCL, FTCL), music performance and computational mathematics (BAS Stanford) and operations research (SM, PhD MIT). She founded the Music Theranostics Lab at King’s College London, where she researches music-heart interactions. Her research has been recognised by the ERC, PECASE, NSF, Harvard Radcliffe Institute, and Falling Walls.
Biography : Music
“Whether dispatching chordal thunder, sprinting through scintillating virtuoso runs with sparkling fingerwork, or whispering tender poetry, she embraced all with panache, entertaining aplomb and an acute sense of wit, revealing herself as a real minx, coy but full of flair” (Straits Times)
“Obviously, the piano is responsive in her hands, those of an intelligent soloist at work, … She plays with a spontaneous quality, a kind of knowing nonchalance which fits so well into the teasing nature of this music. I thought this made the performance decidedly… sexy” (Flying Inkpot).
