Elizabeth
Chang, violinist, has established a multifaceted career as performer, teacher,
and arts administrator. She has 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 is currently a faculty member
of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, the Pre-College Division of the
Juilliard School, and The School for Strings. She has taught master classes in
France, Germany, Brazil, China, and in many institutions in the United States.
A native New Yorker, Ms. Chang studied in the Pre-College Division of the
Juilliard School with Louise Behrend and Joseph Fuchs. She then attended
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 is Artistic
Director and founding member of the Lighthouse Chamber Players, a chamber music
festival on Cape Cod. She has appeared as a guest with the Perspectives
Ensemble, Ensemble Sospeso, Sequitir, the Walden Chamber Players, and the Smith
Chamber Players, among many other groups.She has performed, recorded, and
toured extensively with the Orchestra of St. Luke's and the Orpheus Chamber
Orchestra. both in this country and abroad.
Ms. Chang has been an Artist Faculty member of New York University and the
Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. She co-founded the NYU
Intensive Quartet Workshop in the summer of 2002 and founded and directed The
School for Strings Intensive Chamber Music Workshop from 2003-2007. She also
co-organized the first Five College New Music Festival, which took place in
September 2009 in Amherst, Massachusetts.