Discipline: Music Composition

Chao-Jan Chang

Discipline: Music Composition
Region: Waltham, MA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2005, 2010

Chao-Jan Chang was born in Taiwan and has resided in Boston since 1991. His music has been performed by many professional ensembles such as Studio New Music Ensemble, Dinosaur Annex and Forum Music. In 2007, Warner Music and Better Music Recordings released his first CD album, Love Secrets, which features four of his chamber and electro-acoustic music compositions. He has also written music for a traditional Chinese instrumental ensemble performed at the Taiwan National Concert Hall and a major theater work, The Drought Goddess, which was performed in France at the Avignon Festival in 2009.

He is the founder of ModernMusician.com, which is the largest guitar and music technology website in the Chinese music world with more than 50,000 registered members worldwide. His passions also include guitar, tai-chi and photography.

Studios

Chapman

Chao-Jan Chang worked in the Chapman studio.

Chapman Studio was funded by Mrs. Alice Woodrough Chapman in memory of her husband, composer George Alexander Chapman. Symmetrically massed, the building is stuccoed on the exterior with a natural, unpainted cement. Its unusual half-timbered ornament consists of slender, knotty spruce poles painted a dark green color. A central, peak-roofed entrance porch appears on the north side…

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