Dr. Bing Bing Chang has extensively performed as soloist, chamber musician and piano accompanist in the U.S. Her performance has appeared in Carnegie Hall in New York City, Kimmel Center in Philadelphia, Nicholas Music Center in New Jersey, Richardson Hall Auditorium in Princeton, and The Boston Museum of Fine Arts. She also involved in some international music festivals and gave performances in Prague, Moscow, Paris, Dolomiti, Surabaya (Indonesia) and Witten-Heven (Germany).
Born in Tianjin, China, Bing Bing grew up in Hong Kong and started her musical training when she was five and a half. She achieved B.A. (Hon) with Scholastic Award at Hong Kong Baptist University. In the undergraduate years, she also received a Fellowship Performer’s Diploma (F.T.C.L.) at Trinity College of Music in London. Later studied in the U.S., Bing Bing obtained a Master of Musical Arts in piano performance with Pi Kappa Lambda National Honor at the Boston Conservatory of Music. In 2002, she also received Doctoral of Musical Arts at Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. Her piano teachers (in alphabetical order) included Dr. Jonathan Bass, Samuel Dilworth-Lesile, Si-lai Li, Yen-shun Shiu and Susan Starr; other coaches included Ming-qiang Li, Martin Canin, Andrés Díaz, Doriot Anthony Dwyer, Jonathan Feldman, Patricia McCarty, Zara Nelsova, Arnold Steinhardt, Marina Young, Daine Anderson in Belgium; Peter Eicher in Manheim and Einar Steen-Nokleberg in Hanover, Germany.
Bing Bing has participated in numerous master classes including with Hui-qiao Bao, Claude Frank, Maria Stiepanovna Gambarian, Jerome Lowenthal, Robert Hamilton, Salvatore Moltisanti, Igor Nickonovich, John Robert, Robert Roux, Boaz Sharon and Mordecai Shehori. Chang has worked as an artist faculty at Westminster Conservatory in Princeton since 2002 and served at Rutgers Community Music Program. She is also certified as permanent N.C.T.M teacher from the Music Teacher of National Association. Bing Bing has frequently been invited as judges for competitions, auditions, festivals as well as giving master classes and lectures in numerous national teacher associations and international organizations such as Alberti Competition, Crescendo Competition, Virginia State Concerto Competition, Steinway Society Competition and Concerto Competition by New Jersey Symphony Orchestra. She was selected as a NJ clinician to present in the state conference in 2009. In 2002, she joined as a board member of NJMTA and served as the Chairperson for both MTNA Performance Competition and High School Scholarship Competition.
Dr. Chang enjoys teaching piano for all ages. Many of her students have received competition and festival awards as well as performed at Weill Recital, Zankel and Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage at Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Bruno Walter Auditorium and Kauffman Music Center at Lincoln Center, Verizon Hall and Perelman Theater at Kimmel Center in Philadelphia. She has also directed the chamber orchestra and children choir in Princeton Christian Church since 2010. From 2014, she started the Trio Cordialis with her local musician friends and performed regularly in the community. Bing Bing has joined the Sinfonietta Nova and Eastern Wind Symphony in the past concert seasons as the pianist and celesta player. She is also vivid in the chorus accompaniment at Princeton Christian Church and New Jersey Philharmonic Chorus.