Elizabeth Chang, violinist, has a given solo recitals throughout the United States as well is in Europe and South America and she has appeared as soloist with orchestras both in the US and in Europe. She has been a guest artist and master teacher at the São Paulo International Chamber Music Festival in Brazil, and, most recently, gave master classes in Beijing, China. As a chamber musician she has collaborated with many of today’s most prominent artists, including Bernard Greenhouse, Paul Neubauer, Anne-Marie McDermott, Aaron Rosand, and Robert White. A native New Yorker, Ms. Chang studied in the Pre-College Division of the Juilliard School with Louise Behrend and Joseph Fuchs and at Harvard University, where she was a student of Roman Totenberg, Leon Kirchner and Luise Vosgerchian. Upon graduating from Harvard she continued her violin studies in Switzerland with Professor Max Rostal. Ms. Chang was the recipient of the Presidential Scholar in the Arts Award and the Beebe Fellowship for Study Abroad awarded by New England Conservatory.
Ms. Chang enjoys a busy performing and teaching career. She plays regularly with the Orchestra of St. Luke's and has performed, recorded, and toured with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra both in this country and abroad. She has appeared as a guest with the Perspectives Ensemble, Ensemble Sospeso, Sequitir, and many other groups in New York City as well as with the Walden Chamber Players and the Smith Chamber Players in Massachusetts. Ms. Chang is Artistic Director and founding member of the Lighthouse Chamber Players a chamber music festival on Cape Cod. She has been an Artist Faculty member at New York University and co-founded an intensive chamber music workshop at NYU in the summer of 2002. She has been on the violin and viola faculties at the Mason Gross School of the Arts in Rutgers University and she is currently on the violin and viola faculties of the Pre-College Division of the Juilliard School as well as on the violin faculty of The School for Strings in New York, where she launched an intensive chamber music workshop in the summer of 2003. In 2005 she was appointed to the position of Visiting Associate Professor of Violin at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.
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