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American violinist Hana Chang is quickly building an impressive career as a soloist and competition winner.

"Impeccable, authentic, and gracious playing – Hana's focus is at all times on the substance of the music."

-The Violin Channel

Born in 2002, Hana Chang gave her first solo performance at the age of 7 and has recently appeared as a soloist with orchestras including the Prague Radio Symphony, Philharmonie Baden-Baden, Czech Virtuosi, National Theater Orchestra, Hunan Symphony, Utah Symphony, Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra, Jena Philharmonic, and Poznań Philharmonic. She has performed at the Rockport, St. Wenceslas, Smetana Litomyšl, Deer Valley, Mladá Praha, Vevey Spring Classic, Sion, Solsberg, and Utrecht Chamber Music Festivals and is a laureate of the Stradivarius, Louis Spohr, Prague Spring, and Beethoven Hradec International Violin Competitions. In 2021, she won the third prize and Mozart prize at the Yehudi Menuhin International Violin Competition, as well as the second prize and commission work prize at the inaugural Stuttgart International Violin Competition. In 2022, she was the youngest finalist in the 16th Henryk Wieniawski International Violin Competition where she was awarded distinction. Most recently, she won the grand prize at the 2023 YCAT international auditions in London.

Hana is currently studying at Kronberg Academy with Christian Tetzlaff. These studies are funded by the Nikolas Gruber-Patronat. She continues to be mentored by Ida Kavafian and Janine Jansen, with whom she previously studied. She plays on a 1647 Nicolo Amati violin kindly on loan from the Rin Collection in Singapore.