Hana Chang

Violinist Hana Chang combines remarkable musical maturity with an exceptionally rich palette of tonal colours, shaping every note with intention and expressive depth. She is a member of the BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists scheme, a Borletti-Buitoni Fellow, and was named one of Classic FM’s Rising Stars in 2024.

In the 2026/27 season, Hana performs with the BBC Philharmonic and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as with the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich under Marin Alsop. She makes her debut at the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival with the Odense Symphony Orchestra, and gives recitals and chamber music performances at leading venues including the Vienna Musikverein and Konzerthaus, Wigmore Hall, as well as in Munich, Frankfurt and Nuremberg.

As a BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist, she has appeared with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and BBC National Orchestra of Wales, among others, and has made debuts with orchestras including SWR Stuttgart, Stuttgart Philharmonic, Bremer Philharmoniker, Prague Radio Symphony and Utah Symphony. As a recitalist and chamber musician, she has performed at venues such as the Boulez Saal Berlin, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Tonhalle Zürich, Laeiszhalle Hamburg, Konzerthaus Dortmund, Alte Oper Frankfurt, Kölner Philharmonie and Wigmore Hall.

Hana Chang is a laureate of numerous international competitions, including the Stuttgart International Violin Competition, the Yehudi Menuhin International Competition, the Prague Spring Competition, Beethoven Hradec, the Stradivarius Competition and the Louis Spohr Competition, and was awarded a prize at the 2024 Queen Elisabeth International Violin Competition.

A passionate chamber musician, she has collaborated with artists such as Janine Jansen, Sol Gabetta, Daniel Müller-Schott, Dénes Várjon, Amihai Grosz, Till Fellner, Nikola Meeuwsen, Elisabeth Brauß and Julia Hagen, and appears regularly at festivals including the Gstaad Menuhin Festival, the International Chamber Music Festival Utrecht, Solsberg Festival, Heidelberger Frühling, Spannungen Heimbach, Rheingau Musik Festival, Vevey Spring Classic and Sion Festival.

Hana Chang lives in Berlin, where she studies with Christian Tetzlaff at the Kronberg Academy, supported by the Nikolas Gruber Patronage. She continues to receive mentorship from Janine Jansen, with whom she previously studied at the Haute École de Musique in Sion, having earlier studied with Ida Kavafian at the Curtis Institute of Music, and with Ivan Ženatý, Yuri Mazurkevich and Klaudia Szlachta.
She plays a 1647 Nicolo Amati violin, on kind loan from the Rin Collection, Singapore.