Sarah CHANG, violin

Born in Philadelphia to Korean parents, Sarah Chang began to study the violin at the age of four and within a year performed with orchestras in the Philadelphia area. When aged 8 her early auditions, for Zubin Mehta and Riccardo Muti, led to immediate engagements with the New York Philharmonic and the Philadelphia Orchestra, respectively. In 1999 she graduated from High School in New Jersey and from the pre-college programme at the Julliard School, where she had been a student of Dorothy Delay. Sarah Chang is a past recipient of the Avery Fisher Career Grant as well as a special 1993 Gramophone award as "Young Artist of the Year" and the German "Echo" Schallplattenpreis and the "Newcomer of the Year" honours at the International Classical Music Awards (1994).
Now Sarah Chang is recognized the world over as one of classical music's most captivating and gifted artists. Appearing in the music capitals of Asia, Europe and the Americas, she has collaborated with nearly every major orchestra, including the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony, the Boston Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the San Francisco Symphony and the Pittsburgh Symphony. In Europe she has appeared with the Berlin Philharmonic, the Vienna Philharmonic, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the Orchestre National de France, the London Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic and the Philharmonia. 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, Andre Previn, Sir Simon Rattle, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Leonard Slatkin and Michael Tilson Thomas. Her notable recital engagements have included her Carnegie Hall debut in 1997 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 and the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. She has reached an even wider audience through her many television appearances, including several concert broadcasts, and her best-selling recordings for EMI Classics. The remarkable accomplishments of her career to date were recognised in May 1999 when she received the Avery Fisher Prize, one of the most prestigious awards given to instrumentalists.
Sarah Chang records exclusively for EMI Classics.