Sarah Chang
Biography
American-born violinist Sarah Chang is an award winning violinist who has been performing professionally since she was eight years old.
Born in Philadelphia to Korean parents and with a composer mother and violin teacher father, it was always likely she would be musical. Sarah began studying the violin aged four. Within a year she was performing with orchestras in the Philadelphia area.
Four years later Sarah auditioned for Zubin Mehta and Riccardo Muti, which immediately led to engagements with the New York Philharmonic and the Philadelphia Orchestra respectively.
Music
A recipient of the Avery Fisher Career Grant and the 1993 Gramophone award as 'Young Artist of the Year', Sarah is an exclusive recording artist with EMI Classics.
Her first album 'Debut', featuring virtuoso pieces by Sarasate, Paganini, Elgar and Prokofiev, was released in 1992 and quickly reached the Billboard chart of classical best-sellers.
Sarah's subsequent releases have included the Tchaikovsky Concerto with the London Symphony Orchestra under Sir Colin Davis; the Paganini Concerto No.1 and works of Saint-Saëns with Wolfgang Sawallisch and the Vieuxtemps’ Violin Concerto No.5 with Charles Dutoit leading the Concertgebouw and Philharmonia orchestras, respectively.
Sarah's most recent album release is an interpretation of Vivaldi's best-known work - The Four Seasons - with the Grammy Award-winning Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
Sarah Chang's recording of the Bruch/Brahms violin concertos is released by EMI Classics on 21 September 2009. To celebrate its release, EMI Classics is offering Classic FM listeners the chance to own her recording of the Classic FM Hall of Fame No.1 - Vaughan Williams' The Lark Ascending absolutely free! Watch this space for more details.
Sarah Chang on Classic FM
Listen to Sarah Chang talking to Classic FM in May 2009.
Discography
2007 - Antonio Vivaldi: The Four Seasons, and Violin Concerto in g, op 12 no 1, RV 317
2006 - Dmitri Shostakovich: Violinconcert Nr.1/Sergej Prokofieff: Violinconcert Nr. 1
2005 - Meisterwerke der Kammermusik. Compilation ft Sarah Chang and other artists, 3 CD
Andrew Lloyd Webber: Phantasia/Woman in White
2004 - French Violin sonatas. Piano: Lars Vogt
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Sinfonies. Disc 4: The Lark Ascending
2003 - Classical Legends. Compilation ft Sarah Chang and other artists
2002 - Antonin Dvorak, Peter Tchaikowsky: (with other artists)
2001 - Fire and Ice. Sarasate, Massenet, Ravel, Beethoven, J. S. Bach
2000 - Karl Goldmark: Violin concert op. 29
1999 - Richard Strauss: Violin concert and Violin sonata
Sweet Sorrow: Pieces of Vitali, Gluck, Brahms, Lalo, Vieuxtemps, Paganini, Sibelius, Liszt, etc.
1998 - Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Jean Sibelius: Violin concerts
1997 - Simply Sarah
1996 - Édouard Lalo: Symphonie Espagnole/Henri Vieuxtemps: Violin concert Nr. 5
1993 - Johannes Brahms: Hungarian Dances 1, 2, 4 7/Peter Tchaikowsky: Violin concert op 35
1991 - Debut. Sarasate, Elgar, Paganini
Sarah Chang talks to Classic FM
Revered Korean-American violinist Sarah Chang makes a rare UK appearance this week. We took the opportunity to speak to her.
