CHANG, HAE WON (b 1939 )

Chang Hae Won was born in Korea in the city of Seoul and started to play the piano at the age of six, completing her professional studies at Ewha University in Seoul in 1963. From 1964 until 1968 she studied at the Frankfurt Musikhochschule with Professor Leopolder on a German government scholarship and was awarded her diploma as a concert pianist. On her return to Korea she was appointed professor of piano at her old university.

In Korea Chang Hae Won won various prizes, including first prize in the Korean National Piano Competition. Her career as a concert pianist began three years earlier, in 1957, when she played Beethoven's C minor Piano Concerto with the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra. Since then she has enjoyed a busy career as a teacher and as a performer in Korea, in other Asian countries, in America and in Europe, with annual concert tours and engagements at home and abroad. She has appeared as a soloist with major orchestras and in recitals with Ruggiero Ricci, Christian Ferras, Renata Tebaldi, Franco Corelli, Aaron Rosand, André Navarra and others. She has performed as a soloist at numerous music festivals, including the Paris Château de Breteuil Festival, the National Music Festival in Korea and the festival for the opening of the Sejong Cultural Centre and of the Goethe-Institut in Seoul. She has served on the Vianna da Motta Competition jury in Lisbon. In 1985 she was acclaimed by the Music Critics' Circle of Korea as Musician of the Year, and won high praise in the German press for her technical accomplishment and musicianship. She has recorded for Telefunken, Camerata Tokyo, Hong Kong Records and Marco Polo.

Albums featuring this artist are available for download from ClassicsOnline.com
101 CLASSICS - The Best Loved Classical Melodies	8.508004
BACH FOR MEDITATION	8.557650
BACH, J.S. (THE BEST OF)	8.556656
BACH, J.S.: Adagio	8.552242
BACH, J.S.: Famous Works	8.553220
BACH, J.S.: Piano Concertos, Vol. 1 (BWV 1052-1054)	8.550422
BACH, J.S.: Piano Concertos, Vol. 2 (BWV 1055-1058)	8.550423
BACH, J.S.: Romantic Bach (The)	8.552212
BACH, J.S.: Romantic Bach (The)	8.570077
BAROQUE FAVOURITES	7173
BEST OF NAXOS 5	8.550005
CHILL WITH BACH	8.556786
CINEMA CLASSICS	8.571090
CINEMA CLASSICS 2003	8.556696
CINEMA CLASSICS, Vol. 1	8.551151
CINEMA CLASSICS, Vol. 1	8.556621
CLASSICAL FAVOURITES	8.550521
CLASSICAL FAVOURITES (Den Klassiske Onskekonserten)	8.503129
CLASSICAL MOMENTS 6: Classical Music to Study to	8.555362
Classics at the Movies: Comedy 1	8.556811
HAYDN (THE BEST OF)	8.556668
HAYDN: Piano Concertos Nos. 4, 7, 9 and 11	8.550713
HUMMEL: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 and 3	8.223107
HUMMEL: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 and 3	8.550837
HUMMEL: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 1 - Nos. 2, 3, 5	8.553296
HUMMEL: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 2 - Nos. 4, 6	8.557444
IBERT: Petite Suite / Histoires / Les rencontres	8.223409
IBERT: Piano Music (Complete)	8.554720
Intermezzo: Classics for Relaxing and Dreaming	8.556616
Largo	8.550950
MOZART: Piano Concertos Nos. 20 and 21 / HAYDN: Piano Concerto No. 11	8.553265
NISHIZAKI, Takako: Fritz Kreisler Edition, Vol. 5	8.557871
Nocturne: Classics for Relaxing and Dreaming	8.556620
PIERNE: Piano Music	8.223115
SCARLATTI, D.: Keyboard Sonatas, Vol. 1	8.554779
SCARLATTI, D.: Keyboard Sonatas, Vol. 2	8.554780
THE BEST OF MARCO POLO	8.223002