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Lynn Chang

Lynn Chang

Education and Training

BM, Harvard University. Studied at NEC Prep and Juilliard Prep, with BSO violinist Alfred Krips and Ivan Galamian. Sarah Scriven

Awards and Recognition

Distinguished Leadership Award

Top Prize, International Paganini Competition in Genoa, Italy

Grawmeyer Award for Best New Composition, 1995

Lynn Chang

Division: Expanded Education

Department: Strings

Instrument: Violin

Violinist Lynn Chang has enjoyed an active and versatile international career as soloist, chamber musician, and educator for over twenty five years.  

A native of Boston, Chang is director of the Hemenway Strings at the Boston Conservatory, where he also teaches. His former students now perform in such orchestras as the Chicago Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra in New York.

Lynn Chang is a member of the Boston Chamber Music Society. He has also appeared at the Wolf Trap, Great Woods, Marlboro, and Tanglewood Music Festivals, and as soloist with orchestras in Miami, Salt Lake City, Oakland, Seattle, Honolulu, Beijing, Taipei, and Hong Kong. He has performed with members of the Juilliard, Tokyo, Cleveland, Vermeer, Muir, and Orion String Quartets

Chang has collaborated with cellist Yo-Yo Ma on numerous occasions. Their performance of Leon Kirchner’s Tryptich has been recorded for Sony Classical. Their world premiere performance of Ivan Tcherepin’s Double Concerto with the Greater Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra received the Grawmeyer Award for Best New Composition in 1995. In 2004, he participated in Ma’s Silk Road Project residency at the Peabody Essex Museum in Massachusetts. He also collaborated with Dawn Upshaw on her Grammy Award-winning CD, Girl with the Orange Lips.

Chang is married to pediatrician Dr. Lisa Wong.  They make their home in Newton, Massachusetts with their two children, Jennifer and Christopher who also are violinists.

Faculty at Boston University, Boston Conservatory, MIT.

Curriculum Vitae

BM, Harvard University. Studied at NEC Prep and Juilliard Prep, with BSO violinist Alfred Krips and Ivan Galamian. Sarah Scriven

  • Distinguished Leadership Award
  • Top Prize, International Paganini Competition in Genoa, Italy
  • Grawmeyer Award for Best New Composition, 1995