Angelin Chang
Angelin Chang is a Grammy-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.[1] Prior to joining Cleveland State, she was on faculty at Rutgers University.[1]
Chang's debut performance as a piano soloist was with the Muncie Symphony Orchestra, at age 12.[2] She was the first Artist-in-residence at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C.,[1][3] and the first Academic Performing Artist for Yamaha Corporation.[3]
Chang performed on and produced two of her CDs: Soaring Spirit (2004) [4] and Angelín (2007).[5] In 2007, she won the 2007 Grammy award for the Best Instrumental Soloist Performance with Orchestra of 2006[6] for her recording of Olivier Messiaen's Oiseaux Exotiques (Exotic Birds) with the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, conducted by John McLaughlin Williams.
Chang was born in Muncie, Indiana, and attended Emerson Elementary School and Burris High School there.[7] Chang received her B.A. degree in French from Ball State University in 1990,[2][7][8] and a master's degree in music from Indiana University.[8] She earned her Doctor of Musical Arts degree at Peabody Conservatory, the Johns Hopkins University.[9]
In addition to her musical degrees, Chang has a Juris Doctor law degree from the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d Angelin Chang biography
- ^ a b Ball State alumna picks up Grammy, Ball State Daily News Online, February 17, 2007
- ^ a b 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, February 16, 2009 (search parameters Artist: Chang; Genre: Classical)
- ^ a b City of Muncie proclamation, Dr. Angelin Chang as City of Muncie, Indiana Honorary Cultural Ambassador for Goodwill, December 5, 2007
- ^ a b Angelin Chang with Qian Li, IngenuityFest
- ^ Angelin Chang Gives Recital, Seattle University School of Law news archives
External links
- Official website
- Faculty web page at Cleveland State University
- Angelin Chang at AllMusic
 | This article about a classical musician is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
 | This article about an educator is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
  | This biography of an American academic is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
- Female classical musicians
- American classical pianists
- Grammy Awards for classical music
- People from Muncie, Indiana
- Ball State University alumni
- Indiana University alumni
- Johns Hopkins University alumni
- Rutgers University faculty
- Cleveland State University
- Ohio lawyers
- Classical musician stubs
- Educator stubs
- American academic biography stubs