| Violinist
Violinist Sarah Chang is recognized the world over
as one of classical music’s most captivating
and gifted performers. One of the most remarkable prodigies
of any generation, she has matured into a young artist
whose musical insight, technical virtuosity, and emotional
range continue to astonish. Appearing in the music
capitals of Asia, Europe and the Americas, 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 esteemed 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. She
has reached an even wider audience through her many
television appearances, concert broadcasts and best-selling
recordings for EMI Classics. The remarkable accomplishments
of her career were recognized in 1999 when she received
the Avery Fisher Prize, one of the most prestigious
awards given to instrumentalists.
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.
During the 2003-2004 season, Ms. Chang appeared with
the Pittsburgh Symphony, the San Francisco Symphony,
the New York and Los Angeles Philharmonics, the Saint
Paul Chamber Orchestra, the National Symphony, and
on a tour with Orpheus that ended at Carnegie Hall.
She toured Europe with the London Symphony and Sir
Colin Davis (in addition to appearances at the Barbican),
and visited the Far East with the English Chamber Orchestra.
She also performed in Berlin, Dresden, St. Petersburg
and Vienna.
This season Ms. Chang performs with the orchestras
of Cincinnati, Dallas, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and
Toronto among others. Her activities abroad include
appearances with the Berlin Philharmonic, the London
Symphony, and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, plus
a chamber music tour of Europe with members of the
Berlin Philharmonic. Other notable engagements in 2004-05
include performances in Australia, Hong Kong, South
Korea and Israel.
Ms. Chang records exclusively for EMI Classics. Her
widely lauded recordings include “Fire and Ice,” an
album of popular shorter works for violin and orchestra,
with Placido Domingo conducting the Berlin Philharmonic,
a disc of chamber music for strings (Dvorak’s
Sextet and Tchaikovsky’s “Souvenir de Florence”)
with current and former members of the Berlin Philharmonic,
and the Dvorak Violin Concerto with the London Symphony
and Sir Colin Davis, along with the Dvorak Piano Quintet
(with Leif Ove Andsnes, Alex Kerr, Georg Faust and
Wolfram Christ). Her most recent recording of French
sonatas by Ravel, Saint-Saens and Franck, in collaboration
with pianist Lars Vogt, was released May 2004.
Born in Philadelphia to Korean parents, Sarah Chang
began her violin studies at age 4 and promptly enrolled
in the Juilliard School of Music, where she studied
with the late Dorothy DeLay. Within a year she had
already performed with several orchestras in the Philadelphia
area. Her early auditions, at age 8, for Zubin Mehta
and Riccardo Muti led to immediate engagements with
the New York Philharmonic and the Philadelphia Orchestra.
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 Movado’s global advertising
campaign “The Art of Time.”
In June 2004, Ms. Chang was given the honor of running
with the Olympic Torch in New York, and became the youngest
person ever to receive the Hollywood Bowl's Hall of Fame
award. She is a past recipient of the Avery Fisher Career
Grant, Gramophone’s “Young Artist
of the Year” award, Germany’s “Echo” Schallplattenpreis, “Newcomer
of the Year” honors at the International Classical
Music Awards in London, and Korea’s “Nan
Pa” award.
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Sarah
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