Concertmaster Yi-Li Chang, who carried it off with confident virtuosity.... - The Boston Musical Intelligencer -

A native of Taiwan, Dr Yi-Li Chang has been recognized by Boston Musical Intelligencer as a baroque violinist with “confident virtuosity, and blend as necessary, adding a rich warmth to the group’s sound.”. A founding member of Incendium Novum, she performs regularly across Asia and the U.S. She has participated in festivals such as the Macau International Music Festival and the Boston Early Music Festival and given lectures at numerous institutions, including Universiti Putra Malaysia and National Taiwan Normal University.

Yi-Li has performed in prestigious venues like Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay in Singapore, Dewan Filharmonik Petronas in Malaysia, Boston University in the U.S., and National Concert Hall in Taiwan. As an orchestral musician, Yi-Li has played with the Harvard Baroque Chamber Orchestra and the Lexington Symphony Orchestra. She also served as concertmaster and coach for various ensembles, such as Longy Early Music Orchestra, Philharmonia Moments Musicaux Baroque orchestra, and as guest artist and coach at Tufts University and Montserrat College of Art in U.S.

Yi-Li received her master degree (2007) and Ph. D. (2014) in violin from National Taiwan Normal University under Professor Nanette Chen. After receiving her PhD, she went aboard to study historical performance and graduated with a Master of Music degree (2015) and Graduate Performance Diploma (2016) in Early Music from the Longy School of Music of Bard College, under baroque violinist Dana Maiben. During her studies at Longy, she was the winner of the Honors Competition and granted the prestigious Roman Totenberg Award.

A well-rounded musician, Yi-Li ‘s knowledge of music goes beyond the modern and baroque violin. In addition to baroque performance, her interests extend to harpsichord, she has studied the harpsichord and continuo accompaniment with Avi Stein and Vivian Montgomery, Dana Maiben, and Douglas Freundlich, and viola da gamba, which she has studied with Jane Hershey and Sarah Cunningham. The most recently she performed the harpsichord concerto of J.S.Bach with KLPAC orchestra in Malaysia.

Besides being soloist and being with these groups, Yi-Li is also a dedicated educator, which she has been the faculty of New School of Music, Longy School of Music of Bard College in U.S. As a researcher, Yi-Li is specialized in performance practice in strings, and historically informed performance practice, which some of research has been published.

Dr Yi-Li Chang is currently a Senior Lecturer at the Universiti Malaya, Malaysia.