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Kronberg Festival

Good Vibrations

September 23. September to October 5, 2025

Hana Chang

violin

2021
Violin Masterclasses, participant
2022
Kronberg Academy Professional Studies
2023
Kronberg Academy Bachelor with Christian Tetzlaff, funded by the Nikolas Gruber patronage

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.

Hana has performed with orchestras including the Belgian National Orchestra, 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.

Over the course of the 2024/25 season Hana will make her debut with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic 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 Wigmore Hall.
In February 2025, Hana will also join YCAT artists on a European tour performing at the BoulezSaal Berlin, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Philharmonie Cologne, Tauberphilharmonie Weikersheim, and Wigmore Hall.

An avid chamber musician, Hana has performed in numerous festivals including the Rockport Chamber Music Festival, International Chamber Music Festival Utrecht, Solsberg Festival, Gstaad Menuhin 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.

Since October 2022 Hana Chang has been studying at the Kronberg Academy with Christian Tetzlaff. Her studies are funded by the Nikolas Gruber patronage. She continues to be mentored by Janine Jansen with whom she previously studied. She plays on a 1647 Nicolo Amati, kindly on loan from the Rin Collection in Singapore.


Last updated: December 2024
Großer Saal, Casals Forum
Rückenwind Orchester

CONCERTI BRILLANTI I

Chang, Moncado, LiLa, Pejčić, Wagner, Württemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn

Participants

  • Hana Chang violin
  • Elias David Moncado violin
  • LiLa cello
  • Petar Pejčić cello
  • Dominik Wagner double bass
  • Württembergisches Kammerorchester Heilbronn

Programme

Luigi Boccherini (1743–1805)
Cello concerto No. 6 in D major G 479

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
Violin concerto No. 2 in D major KV 211

Intermission

Joseph Haydn (1732–1809)
Cello concerto No. 2 in D major Hob VIIb:2

Giovanni Bottesini (1821–1889)
Gran Duo Concertante (Arr. D. Wagner)
 

The concert ends at around 8.20 pm
Subject to change.

Tickets
40 / 50 / 60 €
Carl Bechstein Saal, Casals Forum
FreundschaftsSpiele

JANINE JANSEN & FRIENDS I

Jansen, Kozhukhin, Students of Kronberg Academy

Participants

  • Janine Jansen violin
  • Hana Chang violin
  • Anna Im violin
  • Julian Rhee violin
  • Ruslan Talas violin
  • Pauline van der Rest violin
  • Noga Shaham viola
  • Clara Yuna Friedensburg cello
  • Denis Kozhukhin piano

Programme

Zoltán Kodály (1882–1967)
Serenade for Two Violins and Viola, Op. 12

Grażyna Bacewicz (1909–1969)
Quartet for Four Violins

Joaquin Turina (1882–1949)
Fantasy, Op. 91 "Círculo"

Maurice Ravel (1875–1937)
Sonata for Violin and Piano in G Major

Subject to change.

Tickets
35 €
Großer Saal, Casals Forum
FreundschaftsSpiele

JANINE JANSEN & FRIENDS II

Jansen, Grosz, Blendulf, Kozhukhin, Students of Kronberg Academy

Participants

  • Janine Jansen violin
  • Pauline van der Rest violin
  • Hana Chang violin
  • Amihai Grosz viola
  • Sào Soulez Larivière viola
  • Noga Shaham viola
  • Daniel Blendulf cello
  • LiLa cello
  • Benjamin Kruithof cello
  • Denis Kozhukhin piano

Programme

Franz Schubert (1797–1828)
Quartet movement in C minor D 703

Johannes Brahms (1833–1897)
Piano quartet Nr. 3 in C minor op. 60

Arnold Schönberg (1874–1951)
„Verklärte Nacht“ in C minor for string sextet op. 4

Subject to change.

Tickets
55 €
Carl Bechstein Saal, Casals Forum
Masters in Performance

Examination Concert by Hana Chang

Public examination concerts of our young soloists

Participants

  • Hana Chang violin
  • Karolina Aavik piano

Programme

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
Sonata for Piano and Violin B flat major KV 454
Largo – Allegro
Andante
Allegretto

Tōru Takemitsu (1930–1996)
Distance de Fée

César Franck (1822–1890)
Sonata in A major for Violin and Piano
Allegretto moderato
Allegro
Recitativo – Fantasia: Moderato
Allegretto poco mosso

Subject to change.

Tickets
20 €
Großer Saal, Casals Forum
Kronberg Festival - K8

SIR ANDRÁS SCHIFF / KRONBERG YOUNG SOLOISTS

Chang, Sant'Anna, M. Shaham, N. Shaham, LiLa, Lipstein, Schiff

Participants

  • Hana Chang violin
  • Guido Sant’Anna violin
  • Michael Shaham violin
  • Noga Shaham viola
  • LiLa cello
  • Manuel Lipstein cello
  • Sir András Schiff piano

Programme

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809–1847)
Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor, op. 49

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
„Kreutzer-Sonate“ No. 9 in A major. op. 47

Robert Schumann (1810–1856)
Piano Quartet in E flat major, op. 47

Subject to change.

Tickets
40 / 50 / 60 €
Wigmore Hall London
Kronberg Academy on Tour

Wigmore Hall

Chang, Sant'Anna, M. Shaham, N. Shaham, LiLa, Lipstein, Schiff

Participants

  • Hana Chang violin
  • Guido Sant’Anna violin
  • Michael Shaham violin
  • Noga Shaham viola
  • LiLa cello
  • Manuel Lipstein cello
  • Sir András Schiff piano

Programme

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809–1847)
Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor, Op. 49

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
Violin Sonata No. 9 in A major, Op. 47 „Kreutzersonate”

Robert Schumann (1810–1856)
Piano Quartet in E flat major, Op. 47

Subject to change.

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