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Han-Na Chang Tuesday, May 19, 2009 view website purchase tickets

Cellist Han-Na Chang has established an extraordinary international career, performing regularly on the most prestigious concert stages of Europe, North America and Asia. She first won recognition for her exceptional musical gifts in 1994 when at the age of 11 she won both the First Prize and the Contemporary Music Prize at the Fifth Rostropovich International Cello Competition in Paris. Since that time, her superb artistry and virtuosity coupled with the astonishing depth of her interpretations have placed Han-Na Chang at the forefront of the world's new generation of artists.

An exclusive recording artist for EMI Classics and a two time Grammy nominee, Miss Chang’s recordings remain best sellers worldwide and have garnered numerous distinctions. Her first recording was made in 1995 with Mstislav Rostropovich and the London Symphony Orchestra, featuring Tchaikovsky’s “Rococo” Variations, Saint-Saëns’ Cello Concerto No. 1, Fauré’s “Elegie” and Bruch’s “Kol Nidrei.” The astonishing success of her debut album, which brought Miss Chang the Young Artist of the Year Award of the ECHO Klassik-Deutsche Schallplattenpreis, was followed by her recording of the two Haydn Cello Concertos with Giuseppe Sinopoli directing the Staatskapelle Dresden. “The Swan,” her third album, is an anthology of beloved shorter works for cello and orchestra by composers such as Saint-Saens, Faure, Tchaikovsky, Dvorak and Rachmaninov.

Miss Chang’s recording of the Prokofiev's Sinfonia Concertante and the Cello Sonata with Antonio Pappano directing the LSO has been awarded the Best Concerto Recording of the Year Award in 2003 by the ECHO Deutscher Schallplattenpreis, the Cannes Classical Award, the Caecilia Prize and the Gramophone Magazine.
Miss Chang’s recording of the Shostakovich’s Concerto No. 1 and the Cello Sonata with Pappano directing the LSO was released in 2006 to sensational critical acclaim, being hailed as the most significant recording of the repertoire to be released since the world-premiere recording by Rostropovich.

Miss Chang’s highly anticipated new recording ‘Romance’, due for release in the spring of 2007, will present rarely performed works for cello and orchestra by much loved late-Romantic period composers such as Lalo, Tchaikovsky, Glazunov, Saint-Saens and Dvorak.

A keen recitalist, Miss Chang can be heard regularly in the most prestigious recital series around the world. The upcoming recitals will bring her back to her fans in cities as far and widespread as Los Angeles, Washington DC, Hamburg, Florence, Milan, Brussels, London, Lisbon, Madrid, Monte Carlo, Montreal, Seoul and Tokyo. The autumn of 2007 will also see her give the world premiere of Roxanna Panufnik’s “Homage to Handel” for cello solo, commissioned by and dedicated to Miss Chang.

Miss Chang has collaborated closely with such conductors as Giuseppe Sinopoli, Lorin Maazel, Mariss Jansons, Riccardo Muti, Antonio Pappano, and Christoph Eschenbach. Miss Chang continues to collaborate successfully with many of the world’s great orchestras, including the Berlin Philharmonic, the New York Philharmonic, the Staatskapelle Dresden, Sinfonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, the London Symphony, the Orchestre de Paris, the Orchestre National de France, the La Scala Philharmonic, the Santa Cecilia Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony, the Montreal Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Pittsburgh Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Israel Philharmonic, and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.

Miss Chang frequently gives free concerts inviting underprivileged children who would otherwise have no opportunity of attending concerts. She also regularly organizes and performs Concerts for Children both in concert halls and on TV in South Korea, her native country. She currently serves as the Roving Goodwill Ambassador for the Korean Red Cross.

Han-Na Chang has studied privately with both Mischa Maisky and Mstislav Rostropovich. She is continuing her academic studies in philosophy at Harvard University.