Hana Chang - Biography

21-year-old BBT Fellowship winner Hana Chang became a Young Classical Artists Trust (YCAT) and Concert Artists Guild New York artist in 2023 and is a laureate of the Stradivarius, Prague Spring, Beethoven Hradec, Yehudi Menuhin and Stuttgart international violin competitions as well as the youngest finalist of the Henryk Wieniawski Competition where she was awarded Distinction. Hana’s current studies with Christian Tetzlaff at the Kronberg Academy are supported by Nikolas Gruber-Patronat and she continues to be mentored by her former teachers Ida Kavafian and Janine Jansen. Recent performances include the Rockport, Deer Valley, Vevey Spring Classic, Sion, Solsberg and Utrecht Chamber Music Festivals, and with orchestras including the Prague Radio Symphony, Philharmonie Baden-Baden, Czech Virtuosi, Hunan Symphony, Utah Symphony, Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra and Poznań Philharmonic. She plays a 1647 Nicolo Amati violin kindly loaned by the Rin Collection in Singapore.

Photographs by Kaupo Kikkas