CHENXI PAN
VOCALIST & COMPOSER
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Chenxi Pan is a New York–based vocalist and composer whose work blends poetry, song, and contemporary instrumental music. Rooted in jazz, she explores the voice as both a narrative and instrumental force, developing a distinctive personal style and musical language. Born and raised in China, she moved to New York City in 2021 to pursue jazz and earned her bachelor’s degree in Jazz and Contemporary Music from The New School, where she studied with mentors including Sam Yahel and Sara Serpa. In 2024, she made her debut as a composer and bandleader at The Stone NYC and recorded her debut album This Very Moment, released on March 20th, 2026 on Origin Records.
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This Very Moment
Vocalist and composer Chenxi Pan introduces herself as a thoughtful new voice in contemporary jazz through this set of all original music. Unfolding as a series of reflections drawn from lived experience, emotions are rendered through a fluid blend of poetry, song, and instrumental writing, often using the voice as an expressive instrument within the ensemble as she dissolves the line between sung narrative and pure sound. Born and raised in China, her path shifted from literature to music during her early studies, eventually leading her to pursue jazz in New York City at the New School. Her writing reflects that lineage: lyrical yet searching, precise yet open to spontaneity. Produced by master drummer Matt Wilson, This Very Moment was recorded soon after her 2024 debut as a bandleader at The Stone NYC. Balancing intimacy with collective interplay, Pan allows each composition to breathe and evolve. Her emergence as a musical voice signals an artist attuned to nuance, collaboration, and storytelling—one who invites the listener not toward spectacle, but into a shared, resonant present.
Label
Origin Records
Release Date
03/20/2026
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QUOTES
“Chenxi Pan creates a fresh path of material, melding her Chinese heritage with 21st Century jazz sensibilities on this collection of original musical water colors.(...)A fresh morning breeze of ideas.”
“What Chenxi Pan offers here is not immediate gratification but sustained resonance. It is music that rewards patience, that invites close listening rather than background consumption. In an era of accelerated attention, that alone feels quietly radical.”
“This is pure artistry. She is a poet, a songwriter, an arranger, a composer, a revolutionary on many levels. This is an artist to watch, to follow, to support. Chenxi Pan blew me away!”
“Chenxi is an emerging artist with a personal voice that is refreshing in this day and age.”
“Chenxi’s music transcends category with all of the beautiful sounds coming together as a deeply personal message, inviting the listener into the story line.”
CONTACT
General & Booking: chenxipan.music@gmail.com