Dr. Angelin Chang
Associate Professor, Applied Piano; Coordinator, Keyboard Studies; Coordinator, Chamber Music

Music & Communication Building, Room 420
216. 687-2036
angelinchang@gmail.com

007 GRAMMY Award Winner (Best Instrumental Soloist Performance withOrchestra), internationally acclaimed pianist Angelin Chang is recognized for her sense of poetry and technical brilliance. Miss Chang's concert tours have led her to Europe, Asia, Africa, North and South America, with performances at such venues as the Kennedy Center (Washington, D.C.), Lincoln Center (New York), Kimmel Center (Philadelphia), Severance Hall (Cleveland), St. Martin-in-the-Fields (London), Zelazowa Wola (Warsaw), Beijing Concert Hall (China), Sala Luis Ángel Arango (Bogotá), Schnittke Philharmonic Hall (Russia) and the South African Broadcasting Corporation. Angelin Chang is the first American awarded First Prizes in both piano and chamber music during the same year from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris (Paris Conservatoire).

As the first Artist-in-Residence at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., Angelin Chang participated in the development and launching of the Arts for Everyone initiative. She has performed at the U.S Department of State, for the United Nations Women's Organization and before the Royal Family of Nepal. An active chamber musician, she performs regularly with the legendary violist Joseph de Pasquale, The de Pasquale String Quartet, and with members of the Philadelphia Orchestra and Cleveland Orchestra.

Angelin Chang earned her Doctor of Musical Arts from Peabody Institute ­ Johns Hopkins University, Premier Prix - Piano and Premier Prix - Musique de Chambre from the Paris Conservatoire, Master of Music and Distinguished Performer Certificate from Indiana University, B.A. (French) and B.M. from Ball State University, and highest honors upon

graduation from the Interlochen Arts Academy. Her piano teachers have included Michel Béroff, Marie-Françoise Bucquet, Yoheved Kaplinsky, Yvonne Loriod-Messiaen, Robert McDonald, Menahem Pressler, Pia Sebastiani, György Sebök, Louis-Claude Thirion and Dorothy Taubman.

Dr. Angelin Chang is head of keyboard studies and a professor of piano at Cleveland State University, where she established New Trends in Piano: A Practical Seminar for Performing Musicians, Teachers and Students. She is also coordinator for chamber music, and faculty advisor for the Bachelor of Arts/Music program and the Gamma Phi Chapter of Mu Phi Epsilon, a professional music society. Previously, Dr. Chang was on the piano faculty at Rutgers - The State University of New Jersey.

Recent CD releases include Soaring Spirit (Albany Records) with Angelin Chang on piano and Joseph de Pasquale on viola, and Cleveland Chamber Symphony (TNC) with Angelin Chang as piano soloist in Olivier