Sarah plays Chopin's Nocturne... She is arguably one of the most brilliant young violinists I've ever heard. She plays this piece with extraordinary emotion and becoming one with the soul of the music. The kind of play that brings out streams of tears even out of the most stonehearted people (such as myself). I seriously can't stop listening to this...
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Sarah Chang (born December 10, 1980) is an Korean American violinist with Korean nationality.
Chang was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania of Korean heritage. She asked her parents for a violin at the age of 3 and auditioned for the Juilliard School at 7 playing the Bruch Violin Concerto. She was admitted into the studio of Dorothy DeLay, violin teacher to some of the world's great violinists including Itzhak Perlman, Midori Goto, Gil Shaham, Shlomo Mintz and many others, including Chang's father. She was also taught by Hyo Kang, a former student and assistant of DeLay.
Chang was recognized as a child prodigy early on and when she was 8, was given the opportunity to audition with such names as Zubin Mehta and Riccardo Muti, who were working, respectively, with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra and the Philadelphia Orchestra. Both gave her immediate engagements. At 9, she was possibly the youngest violinist ever to record. Her teacher in an interview claimed that no one had ever seen "anything like her".
Yehudi Menuhin has called her "the most wonderful, the most perfect, the most ideal violinist I have ever heard". The Berlin Philharmonic, Sir Collin Davies, André Previn and Julian Lloyd Webber are just a few among the classical greats that she has already worked or recorded with.
Sarah plays a 1717 Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesù.
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