Hana is a member of BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist 24-26, a Borletti-Buitoni Fellowship 2024 Award artist, and nominated as one of Classic FM’s Rising Stars of 2024

 

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Born in 2002, Hana Chang was a winner of the 2023 Young Classical Artists Trust and Concert Artists Guild International Auditions held at Wigmore Hall. She was nominated as one of Classic FM’s Rising Stars of 2024, and has recently been announced as a Borletti-Buitoni Fellowship recipient and a member of BBC Radio 3's New Generation Artist scheme 2024-26.

Over the course of the 2024/25 season Hana will make her debut with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Sinfonia Viva and CBSO Youth Orchestra among others, and undertake a UK recital tour with venues including St. George’s Bristol, Holywell Room Oxford Leeds International Concert Season and the Wigmore Hall. 

In February 2025 Hana will also join a stellar ensemble of YCAT artists past and present for a European Tour celebrating the charity’s 40th anniversary, performing at some of Europe’s most prestigious halls including the BoulezSaal Berlin, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Philharmonie Cologne, Tauberphilharmonie Weikersheim and Wigmore Hall.

Hana has performed with orchestras including the Prague Radio Symphony, Philharmonie Baden-Baden, Czech Virtuosi, National Theater Orchestra (Prague), Hunan Symphony, Utah Symphony, Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra, Poznań Philharmonic, and Tallinn Chamber Orchestra. She is a laureate of the Stuttgart, Yehudi Menuhin, Prague Spring, Beethoven Hradec, Stradivarius, and Louis Spohr International Violin Competitions. Most recently, she was named a laureate of the 2024 Queen Elisabeth International Violin Competition.

An avid chamber musician, Hana has performed in numerous festivals including the Rockport Chamber Music Festival, International Chamber Music Festival Utrecht, Solsberg Festival, Deer Valley Music Festival, Vevey Spring Classic Festival, and Sion Festival, and has performed together with artists including Janine Jansen, Sol Gabetta, Daniel Müller-Schott, Dénes Várjon, Amihai Grosz, and Till Fellner, among others.

Hana currently resides in Berlin and studies with Christian Tetzlaff at Kronberg Academy. These studies are funded by the Nikolas Gruber-Patronat. She continues to be mentored by Janine Jansen with whom she studied at the Haute École de Musique in Sion, Switzerland. She previously studied with Ida Kavafian at the Curtis Institute of Music, Ivan Zenaty, Yuri Mazurkevich, and Klaudia Szlachta.

Hana plays on a 1647 Nicolo Amati violin, kindly on loan from the Rin Collection in Singapore.

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Press reviews

"Impeccable, authentic, and gracious playing – Hana's focus is at all times on the substance of the music."

The Violin Channel

Contact

To book Hana please contact

Etta Dainty – Senior Artist Manager [email protected]

Adam Maxey - Assistant Artist Manager [email protected]

0207 379 8477

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