Jihye Chang
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Pianist Jihye Chang has appeared as soloist and collaborative artist in venues throughout the United States, Canada, Costa Rica, Honduras, United Kingdom, France and Korea. Her performances have been broadcast on KBS TV and Radio Korea, PBC Korea, Yedang TV Korea, and Costa Rica Classical Radio, and she has appeared as a soloist with the Wonjoo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Indiana University New Music Ensemble, the Sun-Hwa Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Hot Springs Festival Ensemble. Highlights of the 2009-10 season include a solo appearance with the Montgomery Symphony Orchestra, a series of workshops and premiere performance for the Studio 2021 series at Seoul National University, performances of the Beethoven Triple Concerto with the Arsenal Trio and Minnesota State University Minnesota Orchestra, concert tour in Taiwan, solo recital presented by the Jamestown College, MN, and a series of concerts with The Pathway Ensemble, Korea.
Together with violinist Benjamin Sung, Ms. Chang is one of the recipients of this year's Copland Fund Recording Grant. They will record four pieces for violin and piano by young American composers, three of which were written for them. She was also the first winner of the International Competition for Pianist-Composer Collaboration awarded by the Yvar Mikhashoff Trust in 2008, and was presented in recital at the Hallwall Contemporary Art Center in Buffalo, NY, in Spring 2009. Other awards and honors include the Henry Kohn Award for outstanding achievement at the Tanglewood Music Center, an Honorary Fellowship from the Montgomery Symphony Orchestra, the President’s Award from Seoul National University, and the Grand Prize from Samick Piano Competition, Korea.
As a recording artist, she has released several commercial CDs such as “Piano for Easy Listening” on Sony/ BMG Korea, and “Classics for Children” on Seoul Record, Korea. Her next CD, a collection of well known classical piano solo pieces and her own arrangement of broadway tunes and other popular songs will be released by Neo Music Korea in early 2010. Jihye also appeared at the new music festivals at Ball State University and the University of Louisville, premiered more than thirty works, and recorded works by Steve Rouse and Marc Satterwhite for the Centaur label.
Jihye holds the degrees of Doctor of Music and Master of Music in Piano Performance from the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, where her primary teachers were György Sebök, Reiko Neriki, and Edward Auer. Her doctoral research into the etudes of György Ligeti and Unsuk Chin has evolved into an ongoing series of lectures and recitals exploring the piano etudes and miniatures of the 20th and 21st centuries, which she has presented at Indiana University, University of Louisville, Seoul National University, and Auburn University Montgomery. She received her Bachelor’s degree summa cum laude from Seoul National University, where she studied with Jungkyu Kim.
Currently she is a faculty member at the Concordia College, Moorhead, MN and North Dakota State Univeristy. She also serves as the artistic director of the Chamber Music ff series in Fergus Falls, MN. In her leisure time, Jihye enjoys cooking, eating, drinking espresso macchiato, and having a great time with her friends.