Sarah Chang

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Sarah Chang (2005)

Sarah Chang (* 10. December 1980 in Philadelphia as Sarah Yong-ju Chang ) is an American violinist .

Life

Sarah Chang's parents are from South Korea . She is not related to the Korean cellist Chang Han-na . Her violin teacher was Dorothy DeLay at the Juilliard School in New York, where her father, the violinist Min-Soo Chang, also studied. Her mother Myoung Jun Chang is a composer.

She began playing the violin at the age of four, and when she was five she performed in public for the first time. At the age of about six she started studying at Juilliard on weekends, and during the week she went to school in the suburbs of Philadelphia as normal. When she was eight she made her Carnegie Hall debut with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra under Zubin Mehta with Niccolò Paganini's Concerto No. 1. When she was nine, she made her first record.

She played with all leading orchestras , for example in German-speaking countries with the Berlin Philharmonic and the Vienna Philharmonic . She has also performed with practically all world-famous conductors such as Zubin Mehta , Riccardo Muti and Kurt Masur . She is also good friends with Plácido Domingo . Her 2001 visit to Seoul with the London Philharmonic Orchestra drew 45,000 concertgoers. This made the concert the best-selling of the whole year. A concert in North Korea in 2002 with a mixed North and South Korean orchestra was also exceptional .

In the run-up to the 2004 Summer Olympics , Sarah Chang ran the Olympic torch in New York .

Instruments

Sarah Chang owns several violins, and says she collects violins. Her preferred instrument is a violin by Guarneri del Gesù from 1717. She bought this instrument from Isaac Stern , who used to play the instrument. Stern had been a mentor to Chang since she was six years old. When she was tall enough to play a normal size violin, Stern asked international dealers for her. The very next day there were around ten Stradivarius and eight Gesù violins to choose from in New York. Stern and Chang tried out all the instruments for two hours at Carnegie Hall , which Stern had reserved for it, first Stern playing them while Chang listened in the hall, then the same with reversed roles. Finally Stern took his own Gesù out of his box and played on it. Chang suddenly fell in love with the violin, and Stern agreed to leave it to her.

Awards

Discography

CDs

All recordings were published by EMI .

DVDs

  • Berlin Philharmonic European Concert
  • European concert 1995
  • Waldbühne Berlin, July 1st 2001, Berliner Philharmoniker, Placido Domingo

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Violinist Sarah Chang on surviving her crazy world-tour schedule Interview with Jamie Paisley, January 14, 2017.
  2. ↑ Sarah Chang and a Gesù String the Sun Across Cultures Interview with Jeff Kaliss, February 26, 2013.
  3. ^ Accademia Musicale Chigiana International Prize: Winners chigiana.it
personal data
SURNAME Chang, Sarah
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Chang, Sarah Yong-ju
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American violinist
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Philadelphia