Sarah Chang is recognized as one of the world’s great violinists. Since her debut with the New York Philharmonic at the age of eight, she has performed with the most distinguished orchestras, conductors, and accompanists internationally in a career spanning more than two decades.

Highlights from Ms. Chang’s recent and upcoming seasons have included performances with North American orchestras such as the New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, and Cleveland Symphony Orchestra. She has also performed at the Hollywood Bowl and the Tanglewood, Ravinia, and Aspen Music Festivals, among others. With a career that has blossomed internationally, her European engagements have included performances with the Berlin Philharmonic, Vienna Philharmonic, and all the principal London Orchestras. She performs regularly in Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom, and her engagements in Asia have brought her to audiences in China, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Australia, and New Zealand. As an accomplished recital and chamber musician, Ms. Chang regularly travels the world, performing with such artists as Pinchas Zukerman, Isaac Stern, Leif Ove Andsnes, Yefim Bronfman, Yo-Yo Ma, Wolfgang Sawallisch, and members of the Berlin Philharmonic.

Ms. Chang’s most recent recording for EMI Classics in 2009, performances of Brahms and Bruch violin concertos with Kurt Masur and the Dresdner Philharmonic, received excellent critical and popular acclaim and was her 20th album for the label. Her recording of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons attracted international commendation, with BBC Music Magazine stating: “She has never made a finer recording.” She has also recorded Prokofiev Violin Concerto No.1 and Shostakovich Violin Concerto No.1 live with the Berlin Philharmonic under the baton of Sir Simon Rattle, Fire and Ice, an album of famous shorter works for violin and orchestra with Placido Domingo conducting the Berliner Philharmonic, the Dvořák concerto with the London Symphony Orchestra and Sir Colin Davis, as well as several chamber music and sonata discs with artists including pianists Leif Ove Andsnes and Lars Vogt.

In 2005, Yale University dedicated a chair in Sprague Hall in Sarah Chang’s name, and in 2012, Harvard University gave her the “Distinguished Leadership in the Arts Award.” For the June 2004 Olympic games, she was given the honor of running with the Olympic Torch in New York and, that same month, became the youngest person ever to receive the Hollywood Bowl’s Hall of Fame award. Also in 2004, Ms. Chang was awarded the Internazionale Accademia Musicale Chigiana Prize in Siena, Italy. She is a past recipient of the Avery Fisher Prize, Gramophone’s “Young Artist of the Year” award, Germany’s Echo Schallplattenpreis, “Newcomer of the Year” honors at the International Classical Music Awards in London, and Korea’s “Nan Pa” award. Ms. Chang has been named the US Embassy’s Artistic Ambassador since 2011.