Angelin Chang (張安麟, Korean: 장 安 린) is a Grammy award-winning classical pianist and professor of music at Cleveland State University. She heads the university's keyboard studies program and coordinates the university's chamber music program, and teaches music and law. Prior to joining Cleveland State, she was faculty at

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. Chang's debut performance as a piano soloist was with the Muncie Symphony Orchestra, at age 12. She is the first Artist-in-residence at the

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in Washington D.C., and the first Academic Performing Artist for

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of America.''Grammy Award Winner Angelin Chang Joins Yamaha Artist Family: First Yamaha Academic Performing Artist Drawn to Company's Distinguished History and Leading-Edge Technology''
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Chang performed on and produced two of her CDs: ''Soaring Spirit'' (2004) and ''Angelín'' (2007). In , she won the Grammy award for the Best Instrumental Soloist Performance with Orchestra for her recording of Olivier Messiaen's '' Oiseaux exotiques (Exotic Birds)'' with the

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, conducted by John McLaughlin Williams. She is the first female American classical pianist and the first pianist of Asian descent to win a Grammy. Chang was born in Muncie, Indiana, and attended Burris Laboratory School there.City of Muncie proclamation
Dr. Angelin Chang as City of Muncie, Indiana Honorary Cultural Ambassador for Goodwill
December 5, 2007 Chang graduated with top honors from the Interlochen Arts Academy and received a

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from Ball State University,''Angelin Chang''
, IngenuityFest and a Master of Music degree, along with a distinguished Performer's Certificate, from

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. She earned a

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degree at

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, at

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. She is the first American awarded Premier Prix Piano and Premier Prix Musique de Chambre in the same year from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris (France). In addition to her musical degrees, Chang has a B.A. degree in French from Ball State University and a Juris Doctor degree from the

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. Chang is vice president and on the Board of Governors of The Recording Academy Chicago Chapter, serving as Chair of the Education Committee and Classical Task Force.

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