Angelin Chang
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Angelin Chang (張安麟, Template:Zh Korean: 장 安 린) is a classical pianist and professor of music at Cleveland State University. She heads the university's keyboard studies program coordinates the university's chamber music program, and teaches music and law.[1] Prior to joining Cleveland State, she was a faculty member 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]
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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 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 the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University Bloomington.[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 Bachelor of Arts degree in French from Ball State University and a Juris Doctor from the Cleveland State University 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
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- ↑ a b c 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)
- ↑ 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 Script error: No such module "webarchive"., IngenuityFest
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External links
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- Faculty web page at Cleveland State University
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- Chicago Chapter at The Recording Academy
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- American classical pianists
- American women classical pianists
- American classical musicians of Chinese descent
- American people of Taiwanese descent
- Musicians from Indiana
- Grammy Award winners
- Living people
- People from Muncie, Indiana
- Ball State University alumni
- Jacobs School of Music alumni
- Johns Hopkins University alumni
- Rutgers University faculty
- Cleveland State University faculty
- Cleveland State University College of Law alumni
- Lawyers from Cleveland
- Peabody Institute alumni
- American women academics
- American expatriates in France
- 21st-century American women