SARAH CHANG

'Sarah Chang' (born December 10, 1980) is a Korean American violinist.
Chang was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania of Korean heritage. Min-Soo Chang, her father, is a violinist and Myoung Jun Chang, her mother, is a composer. She asked her parents for a violin at the age of 3, started playing at 4 and auditioned for the Juilliard School at 6 playing the Bruch Violin Concerto. She was admitted into the studio of the late Dorothy DeLay, violin teacher to some of the world's great violinists including Itzhak Perlman, Midori Goto, Gil Shaham, Shlomo Mintz and many others, including Chang's father Min-Soo Chang. She was also taught by Hyo Kang, a former student and assistant of DeLay.

Chang was recognized as a child prodigy early on and when she was 8, was given the opportunity to audition with such names as Zubin Mehta and Riccardo Muti, who were working, respectively, with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra and the Philadelphia Orchestra. Both gave her immediate engagements. At 9, she was possibly the youngest violinist ever to record. Her teacher in an interview claimed that no one had ever seen "anything like her".
She has collaborated with most major orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony, the Boston Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Vienna Philharmonic, the principal London orchestras, and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam.
Among the conductors with whom she has worked are Daniel Barenboim, Sir Colin Davis, Charles Dutoit, Bernard Haitink, James Levine, Lorin Maazel, Kurt Masur, Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Muti, André Previn, Sir Simon Rattle, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Leonard Slatkin, Michael Tilson-Thomas, and David Zinman.
Notable recital engagements have included her Carnegie Hall debut and performances at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., Orchestra Hall in Chicago, Symphony Hall in Boston, the Barbican Centre in London, the Philharmonie in Berlin, as well as the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.
As a chamber musician, Ms. Chang has collaborated with such artists as Pinchas Zukerman, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Yefim Bronfman, Martha Argerich, Leif Ove Andsnes, Stephen Kovacevich, Yo-Yo Ma, Lynn Harrell, Lars Vogt, and the late Isaac Stern.
Ms. Chang has appeared on numerous television and radio programs throughout Europe, North America and the Far East.
Along with Pete Sampras and Wynton Marsalis, she is a featured artist in watchmaker Movado’s global advertising campaign “The Art of Time.”
For the June 2004 Olympic games, she was given the honor of running with the Olympic Torch in New York.
In 2005, Yale University dedicated a chair in Sprague Hall in Ms. Chang’s name.

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Awards

Discography

External links

References

Awards

Sarah Chang has received a number of awards, including:

★ Avery Fisher Career Grant (1992)

★ Gramophone Magazine "Young Artist of the Year" (1993)

★ “Echo” award (Germany) (“Newcomer of the Year”) 1993

★ “Nan Pa” award (South Korea)

★ "Newcomer of the Year" at the International Classical Music Awards (1994)

★ Avery Fisher Prize (1999) One of three women to first win the prestigious music award.

★ Internazionale Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena (Italy)(2004)

★ Hollywood Bowl's Hall of Fame award (the youngest person ever to receive it) (2004).

Discography

★ 1991 Debut. Sarasate, Elgar, Paganini

★ 1993 Johannes Brahms: Hungarian Dances 1, 2, 4 7/Peter Tschaikowsky: Violin concert op 35. (Colin Davis)

★ 1996 Édouard Lalo: Symphonie Espagnole/Henri Vieuxtemps: Violin concert Nr. 5. Orchestra: Concertgebouw Orchestra (Lalo)/Philharmonia Orchestra (Vieuxtemps), Charles Dutoit

★ 1997 Simply Sarah

★ 1998 Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Jean Sibelius: Violin concerts. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker, Maris Jansons

★ 1999 Sweet Sorrow. Pieces of Vitali, Gluck, Brahms, Lalo, Vieuxtemps, Paganini, Sibelius, Liszt, Tschaikowsky, Saint-Saens, misc. Orchestras, conductors

★ 1999 Richard Strauss: Violin concert and Violin sonata. Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, conductor and piano: Wolfgang Sawallisch

★ 2000 Karl Goldmark: Violin concert op. 29. Orchestra: Gürzenich-Orchester, conductor: James Conlon

★ 2001 Fire and Ice. Sarasate, Massenet, Ravel, Beethoven, J. S. Bach, Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker, conductor: Placido Domingo

★ 2002 Antonin Dvorak, Peter Tschaikowsky: (with other artists) Souvenir de Florence

★ 2003 Classical Legends. Compilation ft Sarah Chang and other artists

★ 2004 French Violin sonatas. Piano: Lars Vogt

★ 2004 Ralph Vaughan Williams: Sinfonies. Disc 4: The Lark Ascending. Conductor: Bernard Haitink

★ 2005 Meisterwerke der Kammermusik. Compilation ft Sarah Chang and other artists, 3 CD

★ 2005 Julian Lloyd Webber: Phantasy/Woman in White.

★ 2006 Dmitri Shostakovich: Violinconcert Nr.1/Sergej Prokofieff: Violinconcert Nr. 1. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker, Conductor: Simon Rattle

External links

★ [1] EMI Classics

★ Discography at SonyBMG Masterworks

★ Extract of recording the album Phantasia plus interview

References