Violinist sarah chang biography books

          Sarah Chang has received numerous musical awards....

          Born Sarah Yong-chu Chang, 1980, in Philadelphia, PA; daughter of a music teacher, and a composer; career managed by her father.

          Chang is a violinist and child prodigy, and a riveting soloist who began performing with a one-quarter size instrument, and gradually moved up from there.

        1. Recognized as one of the foremost violinists of our time, Sarah Chang has performed with the most esteemed orchestras, conductors, and.
        2. Sarah Chang has received numerous musical awards.
        3. The violinist Sarah Chang asked her parents for a violin aged three, auditioned for New York's Juilliard School aged just five.
        4. Sarah Chang (Korean:) (born December 10, ) is an American classical violinist.

          5. Education: Studies music at Juilliard School, New York City, and attends private school in Germantown, PA.

          At the ripe age of ten, Sarah Chang is already rated one of the world's most promising young concert musicians.

          Chang is a violin prodigy, a riveting soloist who performs with a three-eighths-size instrument. In her 1990 debut with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, the youngster drew six standing ovations for her interpretations of several technically demanding classical works.

          Her teachers and fellow musicians alike are astonished by her poise and natural ability. As Daniel Webster put it in the Philadelphia Inquirer, "When the violin is under [Chang's] chin, she is a commanding speaker."

          Associated Press writer Kelly Smith Tunney has contended that Chang is an outstanding example of a larger phenomenon--a fascination among Koreans and Kor