Anita Chang, Pianist

As a recording artist for DVD, Anita Chang has received praising reviews on her performance of the Chopin Ballades (AIX Records, 2003). Sound and Vision Magazine gives her a four-star rating and comments to "have the best piano sound of all, with great presence and natural timbre.” Classical Music Web in the United Kingdom writes, "her piano tone and the nobility of her drama and the clarity of her phrasing, captured so brilliantly in high resolution sound, are exquisite throughout." And Audiophile not only states, “even though Anita Chang is not well known, her performance is first class,” but it also names this recording one the Best of the Year Discs for 2003. Besides her DVD recording, her CD rendition of Jay Weigel's "Three Evocations" (Albany Records, 1993) has also won favoring reviews from the Fanfare Magazine. Harris Goldsmith, an eminent music critic, wrote a review for her New York debut, “…I felt that she gave the most imaginative, fiery, and ultimately convincing account of her pianism and musicianship.”

Currently on the music faculty at the Los Angeles Harbor College, Anita was the Composer’s Prize Winner in the Second Annual New Orleans International Piano Competition. Her orchestral engagements include soloist performing Hummel Piano Concerto No. 3 with the Long Beach Community Symphony Orchestra, Beethoven Second Piano Concerto with the Orange County Youth Symphony Orchestra, Beethoven Third Piano Concerto with the Carson-Dominguez Symphony, and Chopin First Piano Concerto with the California State University Symphony. Her solo recitals have captured audiences in major cities such as, New York, New Orleans, Los Angeles, Chicago, Laredo, Augusta, etc. Besides the States, Anita has gave a solo recital in Singapore and has been invited as a guest artist to teach and perform for the Summer Music Festival at Tunghai University in Taiwan.

After beginning piano studies at the age of five, Anita gave her debut performance at eight. She received the Bachelor of Music degree from the California State University at Fullerton and the Master of Music degree from the Manhattan School of Music. In the summer of 1994, she was awarded the Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of Texas at Austin. Her major teachers include William Race, Mack McCray, Arkady Aronov, Earle Voorhies, and Donald Gibbons.