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, Taiwan, 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 Wonjoo Philharmonic Orchestra (Korea), Montgomery Symphony Orchestra, Indiana University New Music Ensemble, Sun-Hwa Philharmonic Orchestra (Korea), Minnesota State University Moorhead Orchestra, and the Hot Springs Festival Ensemble. Recently she was invited to Escape to Create's residency with the Arsenal Trio in Florida, gave a solo recital for Jamestown College's Performing Arts Series, and performed for The Pathway Ensemble's Season II performances in Seoul, Korea. Highlights of the 2010-2011 season include a series of workshops and premiere performance for the Studio 2021 Summer Academy at Seoul National University, collaboration and a Minnesota tour with the James Sewell Ballet, a concert tour of Liszt's 6 Paganini-Etudes and Paganini's Caprices with violinist Benjamin Sung, and a series of recitals in Minnesota-North Dakota region with soprano Virginia Sublet.
Together with violinist Benjamin Sung, Ms. Chang was one of the recepients of the 2009 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 Hallwalls 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. Jihye also appeared at the new music festivals at Ball State University and the University of Louisville, premiered more than thirty works by young American and Korean composers, and recorded works by Steve Rouse 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 and North Dakota State University. She also serves as the artistic director of the Chamber Music ff series in Fergus Falls, MN, which focuses on building a new generation of audience by presenting imaginative and intimate chamber music recitals and engaging children and family. In her leisure time, Jihye enjoys drinking good espresso, cooking, reading, eating, listening to good music, having a great time with her friends, and blogging on blog.naver.com/jhjascha.