1. Sarah Chang is a Korean American classical violinist.
23 Facts About Sarah Chang
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Sarah Chang enrolled at Juilliard School to study music, graduated in 1999, and continued university studies.
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Especially during the 1990s and early to mid-2000s, Chang had major roles as a soloist with many of the world's major orchestras.
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Sarah Chang was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and raised in Cherry Hill and Voorhees Township, New Jersey.
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Sarah Chang's parents moved to the United States from South Korea in 1979 for her father's advanced music degree at Temple University.
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Sarah Chang's mother took composition classes at the University of Pennsylvania.
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In 1986, when Sarah Chang was 5 years old, she auditioned for and was accepted to the Juilliard School by performing the Bruch Violin Concerto No 1 in G minor.
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Sarah Chang spent her weekends attending music classes at Juilliard and shopping in New York City with her parents.
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When Sarah Chang was 6 years old, she started studying with Isaac Stern outside school.
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Sarah Chang learned from a family environment to naturally speak Korean.
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Sarah Chang's mother trained her to play one-finger melodies on the piano at age 3.
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In 1991, when Sarah Chang was 10 years old, she recorded her first album, Debut; it was released by EMI Classics on August 18,1992 and quickly reached the Billboard chart of classical best-sellers.
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Sarah Chang quickly rose to fame and became known on an international scale, performing up to 150 concerts a year.
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Sarah Chang took part in watchmaker Movado's global advertising campaign "The Art of Time" with Pete Sampras and composer Wynton Marsalis.
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Sarah Chang played a recital at Carnegie Hall on April 7,2007, accompanied by the British pianist Ashley Wass.
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Sarah Chang continued to perform with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Esa-Pekka Salonen and appear with the former at the Hollywood Bowl and Walt Disney Concert Hall throughout 2008.
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Sarah Chang made an appearance at the University of Southern California in March 2010, playing Max Bruch's Violin Concerto No 1 in G minor, Op.
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Sarah Chang performed at the Hollywood Bowl in August 2010.
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Sarah Chang uses a variety of bows: she has said that she prefers a Pajeot for Mozart and Bach; a Sartory for the Tchaikovsky and Sibelius concerti; and two Dominique Peccattes for other music.
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Sarah Chang has performed with the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony, the Boston Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Vienna Philharmonic, orchestras in London, England, and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
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Sarah Chang has been a soloist under the baton of conductors Mariss Jansons, Daniel Barenboim, Sir Colin Davis, Charles Dutoit, Bernard Haitink, James Levine, Lorin Maazel, Kurt Masur, Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Muti, Andre Previn, Sir Simon Rattle, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Leonard Slatkin, Michael Tilson Thomas, Placido Domingo, David Lockington, David Zinman, Gustavo Dudamel, Valery Gergiev, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Jaap van Zweden, John Williams, Steven Amundson, and others.
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Sarah Chang had already been promoting and supporting childhood musical education for many years.
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Sarah Chang has been a cultural ambassador for the US; for instance, she was invited to play in Pyongyang, North Korea, with a South Korean orchestra in 2002.