Jihye Chang

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Pianist Jihye Chang has appeared as soloist and collaborative artist in venues throughout the United States, Canada, Korea, Brazil, Costa Rica, Honduras and France. Her performances have been broadcast on KBS TV and Radio Korea, PBC TV 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, Montgomery Symphony Orchestra, Minnesota State University-Moorhead University Orchestra, the Sun-Hwa Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Hot Springs Festival Ensemble. In the 2011-12 season she will debut at the Virtuosi festival in Recife and Festival Inverno de Garanhuns in Brazil, appear as a soloist with the Fargo-Moorhead Symphony Orchestra, make solo appearances at the Art Festival Olivet, France and the Brandeis Electro-Acoustic Music Studio, tour with the Arsenal Trio in Minnesota through the Chamber Music Seris ff, and present a program of Liszt’s Paganini Etudes in venues throughout the Midwest and the East coast. She has also developed a close relation with the James Sewell Ballet in Minneapolis, and will collaborate with them for a series of concerts presented by the Schubert Club Minneapolis, in JSB's fall performance of Mendelssohn Trio in D Minor, and Cheryl Losett Nelson Performing Arts Series at Minnesota Sate University-Moorhead in 2011-12.

Together with violinist Benjamin Sung, Ms. Chang is one of the recipients of the 2009 Aaron Copland Fund Recording Grant. They recently recorded 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 Mikhashoff International Competition for Pianist-Composer Collaboration in 2008, and gave her winner’s recital at the Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center in Buffalo, NY. 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 the Samick Piano Competition, Korea. As a recording artist, she has released several commercial CDs including “Piano for Easy Listening” on Sony/ BMG Korea and “Classics for Children” on Seoul Record, Korea. Her most recent CD is a solo piano collection for children ("I am Piano") from Universal Korea and a collection of solo CD with pieces ranging from classical to jazz released by Sony Music Korea.

An avid performer of new music, she has been a frequent guest artist of the Studio 2021 Series at Seoul National University, as well as new music festivals at Ball State University and the University of Louisville. 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 has closely worked with numerous composers including David Dzubay, John Harbison, George Perle, Steve Rouse, and Marc Satterwhite, and has premiered more than thirty works, many of them written for her.

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 under the tutelage of 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 served as a faculty member at Concordia College, MN, North Dakota State University, and the Troy University AL. She currently serves as the Artistic Director of “Chamber Music ff,” a series in Fergus Falls, MN, which focuses on building a new generation of audience by presenting imaginative and intimate chamber music recitals. She is also a member of the Arsenal Trio and the Pathway Ensemble, Korea. She currently resides in sunny Florida with her husband, violinist Benjamin Sung.

In her leisure time, Jihye enjoys drinking good espresso, cooking, reading, eating, having a good time with her friends, and blogging on blog.naver.com/jhjascha.