Biography: Yu-Fen Chang

Yu-Fen Chang obtained her "diplôme supérieur" at the Brussels Royal Conservatory. She attended masterclasses and studied with Vitaly Margulis, Louiz de Moura Castro, Dimitri Bashkirov, John Perry, Pierre Réach and Elisso Virsaladze.

Besides being a pianist, she always had a great interest in literature. She also worked as a freelance writer for magazines and as a journalist for newspapers about cultural life and social events. These experiences have played an important role in enriching her musical understanding and interpretation.

Yu-Fen likes to perform so called mixed programs: "I like to give the audience the feeling they have taken an emotional sauna. I try to do that by combining the standard romantic 19th century repertory with either Scarlatti or Bach and on the other hand composers like Lepo Sumera, Tan Dun, Silvestrov, Janacek, Ginastera, Villa Lobos and Schnittke."

She performs all over Europe, China and Russia, and made her acting debut when she played the role of a pianist in the movie "Komma" (directed by Martine Doyen) together with the Belgian singer/actor Arno.

She has performed piano concertos with numerous international orchestras. Besides Rimsky-Korsakov, Rachmaninov, Mozart and Gershwin, she especially performed the piano concertos of Galina Ustvolskaya and Valentin Silvestrov (Epitaph) with Andres Mustonen and Dmitri Liss.

Since 2011, she is invited to give recitals in South-America. In 2016, she was extremely honored to give a masterclass at the Korean National University of Arts with "the cradle of international music competition winners".