Angelin Chang
Angelin Chang (張安麟, Chinese: 张安麟; pinyin: Zhāng Ānlín; Korean: 장 安 린) is a Grammy award-winning classical pianist and professor of music at Cleveland State University. She heads the university's keyboard studies program and coordinates the university's chamber music program, and teaches music and law.[1] Prior to joining Cleveland State, she was faculty at Rutgers University.[1]
Chang's debut performance as a piano soloist was with the Muncie Symphony Orchestra, at age 12.[2] She is the first Artist-in-residence at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C.,[1][3] and the first Academic Performing Artist for Yamaha Corporation of America.[3]
Chang performed on and produced two of her CDs: Soaring Spirit (2004)[4] and Angelín (2007).[5] In 2007, she won the Grammy award for the Best Instrumental Soloist Performance with Orchestra[6] for her recording of Olivier Messiaen's Oiseaux Exotiques (Exotic Birds) with the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, conducted by John McLaughlin Williams. She is the first female American classical pianist[1] and the first pianist of Asian descent to win a Grammy.[1]
Chang was born in Muncie, Indiana, and attended Burris Laboratory School there.[7] Chang graduated with top honors from the Interlochen Arts Academy and received a Bachelor of Music from Ball State University,[7][8] and a Master of Music degree, along with a distinguished Performer's Certificate, from Indiana University.[8] She earned a Doctor of Musical Arts degree at Peabody Conservatory, at Johns Hopkins University.[3] She is the first American awarded Premier Prix Piano and Premier Prix Musique de Chambre in the same year from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris (France).[1]
In addition to her musical degrees, Chang has a B.A. degree in French from Ball State University and a Juris Doctor degree from the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law.[1] Chang is Vice President and on the Board of Governors of The Recording Academy Chicago Chapter, serving as Chair of the Education Committee and Classical Task Force.[1][9]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 Angelin Chang biography
- ↑ Ball State alumna picks up Grammy, Ball State Daily News Online, February 17, 2007
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Grammy Award Winner Angelin Chang Joins Yamaha Artist Family: First Yamaha Academic Performing Artist Drawn to Company's Distinguished History and Leading-Edge Technology, Yamaha Corporation of America press release
- ↑ Soaring Spirit CD at AllMusic
- ↑ Angelín CD at AllMusic
- ↑ Search of official Grammy database, accessed April 14, 2011 (search parameters Artist: Chang; Genre: Classical)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 City of Muncie proclamation, Dr. Angelin Chang as City of Muncie, Indiana Honorary Cultural Ambassador for Goodwill, December 5, 2007
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Angelin Chang, IngenuityFest
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External links
- Official website
- Faculty web page at Cleveland State University
- Angelin Chang at AllMusic
- Chicago Chapter at The Recording Academy
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- American classical pianists
- American classical musicians of Chinese descent
- American people of Taiwanese descent
- Musicians from Indiana
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- People from Muncie, Indiana
- Ball State University alumni
- Indiana University alumni
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- Rutgers University faculty
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- Cleveland–Marshall College of Law alumni
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