Elizabeth Chang, violinist, leads a multifaceted career as performer, educator, and arts administrator. She has appeared as a soloist and chamber musician on three continents and has collaborated with many of today’s leading artists. She currently serves as Professor of Violin at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, is a member of the violin and viola faculties at the Juilliard School’s Pre-College Division, and is Artistic Director of the Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival.

Ms. Chang has launched and led numerous projects that bridge her work as a performer, educator, and artistic leader. She is Artistic Director and co-founder of the Lighthouse Chamber Players (Cape Cod) as well as co-founder and co-organizer of the Five College New Music Festival, and the UMass Amherst Bach Festival and Symposium. . She also co-founded the NYU Intensive Quartet Workshop in 2002 and directed The School for Strings Intensive Chamber Music Workshop from 2003 to 2007.

A passionate advocate for new music and student engagement, Ms. Chang launched the Violin Duo Project under the auspices of the Five College New Music Festival, commissioning over 60 pedagogically inspired short works for student violin duos. She has also worked closely with composers—including Salvatore Macchia, Eric Sawyer, and Pulitzer Prize-winner Lewis Spratlan—on new works for and including the violin. In addition, she has curated numerous pedagogy events at UMass Amherst and organized the virtual speaker series Music, Community Engagement, and Social Action.

Before joining the UMass faculty, Ms. Chang performed and recorded extensively with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, and was active in New York’s contemporary music scene. She previously held artist faculty positions at New York University and Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts, and was a long-time chamber music coordinator and violin faculty member at The School for Strings and the Harlem School of the Arts.

Her discography includes Transformations: Works by Kirchner, Sessions, and Schoenberg (Albany Records, 2021) and Sonatas and Myths: Works by Szymanowski, Dohnányi, and Bartók (Bridge Records, 2024), both in collaboration with pianist Steven Beck.

A native of New York City, Ms. Chang is a graduate of Harvard University and the recipient of the Presidential Scholar in the Arts Award and the Beebe Fellowship from New England Conservatory for study abroad. Her teachers included Louise Behrend, Joseph Fuchs, Roman Totenberg, Max Rostal, Leon Kirchner, and Luise Vosgerchian.