Han-Na Chang

Maintaining her position as a cellist at the highest level (engagements this season and last include concerts with the Philadelphia Orchestra, a tour with the Orchestre National de France and recitals at the Wigmore Hall and throughout Italy and Korea), Han-Na Chang is also creating a distinctive profile as a conductor. Artistic Director of both the Bayerisches Landesjugendorchester and the Absolute Classic Festival in South Korea, she has upcoming guest-conducting engagements at the Philharmonia Orchestra, Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and the Orchestra del Teatro di San Carlo di Napoli. After her first visit to the Bamberger Symphoniker at the end of last season, she was immediately invited to return to the orchestra.

Han-Na Chang was catapulted to international attention at the age of 11 as the winner of the Fifth Rostropovich International Cello Competition in 1994. The list of her notable supporters soon grew to include such significant figures in the music world as Mariss Jansons, Ricardo Muti, Giuseppe Sinopoli and Antonio Pappano as well as Mstislav Rostropovich himself.