Chan Poling
Chandler Hall "Chan" Poling (1957-) is an American musician and composer.
Chandler Hall Poling was born in 1957 in Evanston, Illinois, USA. He moved to Minnesota with his family in 1961. He studied composition at MacPhail Center for Music in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and, after graduating from The Blake School, went on to study composition and performance at the California Institute of the Arts from 1975 to 1977 under the tutelage of his mentor the composer Harold Budd.
Influenced by jazz and theater music and the burgeoning punk and new wave pop music of that time, as well as the music of his mentor Hal Budd Minimalists Terry Riley, visiting artists to Cal Arts, like Philip Glass and world and avant-garde performer/composers Meredith Monk, as well as the treasure-trove of film scores available to students at Cal Arts, Mr. Poling went on to write and perform dance scores, student theater and film scores and start his own rock band, The Suburbs.
After returning to Minneapolis and consulting with his friend Chris Osgood of The Suicide Commandos, Mr. Poling started the band The Suburbs along with his friend Beej Chaney, and the new acquaintances Bruce Allen, Michael Halliday and Hugo Klaers. The Suburbs got their first recording contract with Twin/Tone Records and went on to record music for PolyGram Records, A&M Records, Universal Music, Restless Records. The Suburbs were voted among the “100 Most Influential Minnesota Musical Entities of the Twentieth Century” by The Minneapolis Star Tribune.
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