Jihye Chang
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I am a pianist, who loves playing (and listening) to good music (preferably with good friends), paintings, cooking, eating, reading, sipping espresso macchiato, being sleepy, and traveling. Here is my current biography, if you are interested…
Pianist Jihye Chang has appeared as soloist and collaborative artist in venues throughout the United States, Canada, Costa Rica, Honduras, United Kingdom, and Korea. Her performances have been broadcast on KBS Korea, PBC Korea, Syracus radio, and Costa Rica Classical Radio, and she has appeared as a soloist with the Wonjoo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Indiana University New Music Ensemble, the Minnesota State University Moorhead Symphony Orchestra, the Sun-Hwa Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Hot Springs Festival Ensemble. Future engagements in 09 include a solo appearance with the Montgomery Symphony Orchestra, AL, appearances with the Pathway Ensemble in Seoul, Korea, and duo performances at Taipei National Theatre, Taiwan.Ms. Chang was the first winner of the International Competition for Pianist-Composer Collaboration awarded by by the Yvar Mikhashoff Trust in 2008, and was presented at the Hallwall Contemporary Art Center in Buffalo, NY, in Spring 2009. She is also a recipient of the Henry Kohn Award for outstanding achievement at the Tanglewood Music Center, an Honorary Fellowship from the Montgomery Symphony Orchestra, a full merit scholarship and the President’s Award from Seoul National University, and the Grand Prize from Samick Piano Competition, Korea. 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 intermediate level piano repertoire for students, will be released by Music Valley Korea in 2009.
Ms. Chang has been an enthusiastic performer of new music since her graduate studies at Indiana University, where she gave the U.S. premiere of Unsuk Chin’s Double Concerto for Piano and Percussion, and was the dedicatee of a new piano concerto commissioned by the IU New Music Ensemble. 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 and her husband, violinist Benjamin Sung, are invited for the Studio2021 series at Seoul National University, Korea, in 2009. They will conduct a series of workshops for composition students at Seoul National University in 2009 and perform and record the selected pieces.
Ms. Chang holds the degrees of Doctor of Music and Master of Music in Piano Performance from the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, where she served as an Associate Instructor for. Her primary teachers were György Sebök, Reiko Neriki, and Edward Auer. She received her Bachelor’s degree summa cum laude from Seoul National University, where she studied with Jungkyu Kim. She has also studied at the Tanglewood Music Center, the Chamber Music Residency at The Banff Center, and the Sarasota Music Festival, and played for the master classes of Emanuel Ax, Claude Frank, Stephen Kovacevich, Yo Yo Ma, and Andre Watts. Currently she is the artistic series of the “Chamebr Music ff” series in Fergus Falls, MN, set for 2009-10 season.