The phenomenal young violinist Sarah Chang joins the Singapore Symphony Orchestra in Sibelius’ Violin Concerto in a special one-night performance on February 1. She last appeared with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra and Lan Shui in October 2002, at the national inauguration of Esplanade Concert Hall.
The music of the twentieth century fills this Gala evening, from Ravel’s Rapsodie espagnole to Ashes of Memory, where contemporary composer Michael Hersch creates an unusual sense of sonic space, conjured up with the tidal pull of his crescendos and his relentlessly built-up series of climaxes. The Sibelius violin concerto, one of the best known of violin showpieces, alternates scintillating virtuosity with melodic lyricism.
Born in Philadelphia to Korean parents, Sarah Chang began her violin studies at the age of four and promptly enrolled in the Juilliard School of Music, where she studied with the late Dorothy DeLay. Within a year she had already performed with several orchestras in the Philadelphia area. Her early auditions, at age 8, for Zubin Mehta and Riccardo Muti led to immediate engagements with the New York Philharmonic and the Philadelphia Orchestra.
Along with Pete Sampras and Wynton Marsalis, Sarah Chang was featured in Movado’s global advertising campaign “The Art of Time.” In 2005, Yale University named a chair in Sprague Hall in honor of her. In June 2004, she was given the honour of running with the Olympic Torch in New York, and became the youngest person ever to receive the Hollywood Bowl's Hall of Fame award. She is a past recipient of the Avery Fisher Career Grant, Gramophone’s “Young Artist of the Year” award, Germany’s “Echo” Schallplattenpreis, “Newcomer of the Year” honours at the International Classical Music Awards in London, and Korea’s “Nan Pa” award. -- www.sso.org.sg
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