Sze Ying Chan is a Hong Kong-born composer based in London.

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Sze loves to tell stories through music. Her lastest commissions includes Love in a fallen city (2025) written for the LSO soundhub scheme and Ten Wells (2026) written for the season of creation for St. James's Church Piccadilly.Sze's choral piece Cumulus (2024) is awarded the first prize in the 10th Japan international choral composition competition and her electroacoustic work Due to a reported emergency may all passengers leave the station immediately (2023) was exhibited in MUS Lab 2023 held in Ecuador and broadcasted by the Radiophrenia in Glasgow. Sze has collaborated with a wide range of artists including illustrator Sandy Sin U Leong, director Ying Ping Yu, and visual artist Meng Zhou.

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Sze enjoys working on projects with friends from the Ealing Symphony Orchestra and the Ealing Chamber Music Club. Her works for them most recently include The Origin of the Dance of the Deer (2026) commissioned by violist David way and An(other) Entertainment in collaboration with narrator John Martin.

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Sze is a master graduate of the Royal College of Music studying composition for screen with Francis Shaw and Howard Davidson, composition with Haris Kittos and Alison Kay, and electroacoustic music with Micheal Oliva. Sze was awarded a BAFTA scholarship in 2018 and received mentorship from composer George Fenton. Sze has worked with George in projects including but not limited to Wild Isles (2023) and The Choral (2025). 

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