Violist Dr. Lee-Wen Chang was born in Taipei, Taiwan. Ms. Chang has appeared in numerous solo and chamber music performances in Taiwan and the United States. She has won awards in prestigious concerto competitions in Taiwan including the First Prize of the Taipei Viola Competition and the Third Prize of the Taiwan National Viola Competition. She received her Bachelor’s Degree at the National Taiwan Normal University in Taipei where she was a student of Rei-Sei Yang. For her graduate studies, she was a fellowship student at the University of Michigan where she studied with Yizhak Schotten and earned her Master’s Degree. In May 2008, she obtained her Doctor of Musical Arts degree under the guidance of Katherine Murdock at Stony Brook University. She has worked with members of the Emerson String Quartet, Gilbert Kalish, Andrew Jennings, Yehonatan Berick and Ani Kafavian. Ms. Chang has participated in festivals with the Asian Youth Orchestra, Jeunesses Musicales World Orchestra, Tanglewood Music Center, Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival and National Orchestra Institute. She was a member of Asian Artists and Concerts in New York City, is on the viola and piano faculty of Song of Songs and New Song Music Studio, and teaches privately in Long Island and Queens, NY.
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