“Chang’s performance, blending Western techniques with Eastern philosophy, like the chanting of a poet.”

Ya-ching CHANG is a violinist from Kaohsiung, Taiwan. She is the winner of InterContinental Music Awards, Global Music Awards, and Golden Melody Awards for Traditional Arts and Music.

Chang studied under Michele Auclair at the New England Conservatory to earn a Master of Music in Violin Performance. A dedicated, passionate performer, she has received countless awards for her work in Taiwan and United States, such as first prize at the Concerto Competition in Maryland, first prize at Concerto Competition of Taipei Symphony Orchestra.

 

After back to homeland, she is still an active violinist and also a faculty in National University of Arts, and National Pingtung University.

 

Her albums include: “Hái-ang Paint-Ya ching Chang Violin Album”, won Best Fusion Album and Best Arrangement at the Golden Melody Awards (2019) for Traditional Arts and Music in Taiwan. The album “Hái-ang Paint II” won the Silver Medal Awards as contemporary music at the Global Music Awards (2023). The album “BEETHOVEN The Complete Sonatas for Piano and Violin”, won the Silver Medal Awards as Best Instrumentalist at the GMA (2024). The “Hai-ang Paint” also won the Best Instrumentalist at the InterContinental Music Awards (2024).

 

Influenced by her painter father, Chang has become fond of Taiwanese music in recent years, traveling all over Taiwan to record the traditional folk music of various ethnic groups so as to preserve it, arrange for violin music, and promote it to an international audience.