Sarah Chang (born Young Joo Chang, 10 December 1980) is a Korean-American violinist and child prodigy born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to parents who had emigrated from South Korea in 1979 while her father pursued a music degree at Temple University. She began violin lessons as a small child and, at age eight in 1989, made her professional debut as soloist with the New York Philharmonic, followed days later by an engagement with the Philadelphia Orchestra. She studied at the Juilliard School under Dorothy DeLay and Hyo Kang, graduating in 1999.

Chang built an international solo career while still a child, signing to EMI Classics and recording an extensive catalogue of concerto repertoire; she was especially prominent as a touring soloist with the world’s leading orchestras through the 1990s and 2000s. She has continued to perform and record into her fifth decade as an artist, and remains one of the most widely recognized violin virtuosos of her generation.

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• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Chang