Sarah Chang (born December 10, 1980) is a Korean American violinist with Korean nationality.
Chang was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania of Korean heritage. At age two she could distinguish between major and minor tone. She asked her parents for a violin at the age of 3 and auditioned for the Juilliard School at 6 playing the Bruch Violin Concerto. She was admitted into the studio of Dorothy DeLay, violin teacher to some of the world's great violinists including Itzhak Perlman, Midori Goto, Gil Shaham, Shlomo Mintz and many others, including Chang's father. She was also taught by Hyo Kang, a former student and assistant of DeLay.
Chang was recognized as a child prodigy early on and when she was 8, was given the opportunity to audition with such names as Zubin Mehta and Riccardo Muti, who were working, respectively, with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra and the Philadelphia Orchestra. Both gave her immediate engagements. At 9, she was possibly the youngest violinist ever to record. Her teacher in an interview claimed that no one had ever seen "anything like her".
Yehudi Menuhin has called her "the most wonderful, the most perfect, the most ideal violinist I have ever heard". The Berlin Philharmonic, Sir Colin Davis, André Previn and Julian Lloyd Webber are just a few among the classical greats that she has already worked or recorded with. At this writing, she is 27 years old.
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