Angela Chang

Angela Chang began her musical education at the age of four, initially on the violin. At eight, she switched to the cello and later studied with Wen-Sinn Yang in Munich and Reinhard Latzko in Vienna, where she graduated with honors from the artistic diploma program, earned a master class diploma, and completed postgraduate studies. Important musical influences for Angela Chang came from Wolfgang Boettcher, Peter Bruns, Natalja Gutman, Ana Chumachenco, Anner Bylsma, Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt, and others.

Already during her studies, she was engaged with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and performed under conductors such as Mariss Jansons, Andris Nelsons, Bernhard Haitink, Herbert Blomstedt, and Christoph Eschenbach in many of Europe’s major concert halls as well as at Carnegie Hall in New York. After a position as an academy member with the Munich Philharmonic, she took the role of principal cellist at the Norddeutsche Philharmonie Rostock. Since 2018, she has played as principal cellist at the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne.

Since summer 2020, she is also a member of the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra, with which she performed both at the Bayreuth Festival under the direction of Christian Thielemann and as deputy principal cellist on a concert tour under the direction of Andris Nelsons.

As a substitute, Angela Chang has performed as principal cellist with the Dortmund Philharmonic, the Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, and the Cologne Chamber Orchestra. She also played as deputy principal cellist with the Beethoven Orchestra Bonn and under Kent Nagano with the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra.