Sarah Chang

Sarah Chang(生于1980年12月10日) ，韓裔美籍小提琴演奏家，生于美國賓夕法尼亞州費城的韓裔家庭。
從小以音樂神童之姿崛起、揚名國際樂壇，且音樂詮釋屢見精進，一直有超齡演出。三歲時由母親啟蒙學(xué)習(xí)鋼琴，接著在父親指導(dǎo)下學(xué)小提琴，五歲便上臺演奏，六歲師從林昭亮的老師、朱麗亞音樂學(xué)院名師多蘿西·迪蕾（Dorothy Delay）學(xué)習(xí)，八歲受到祖賓·梅塔、慕堤兩位指揮大師青睞，有機會和紐約愛樂、費城管弦樂團合作演出。 1991年，EMI 唱片公司為一位年僅九歲的少年小提琴家推出了她的首張專輯，在當(dāng)時引來不小的轟動，人們普遍為小提琴界又出現(xiàn)了一位年少有為的人物發(fā)出驚嘆，小提琴大師梅紐因更對她的演奏做出如此評價：“我想她是我聽過的最美妙、完美、理想的小提琴家”，雖然這段感想可能也充滿了同樣從神童之路走來的大師對后輩的關(guān)愛與提攜，但不可否認(rèn)她的出色演奏才是打動大師并發(fā)出由衷贊美的決定因素。時光飛逝，在距離首張專輯發(fā)行十多年后的今天，這位當(dāng)年的神童正一步步向著一位成熟的音樂家邁進，這些年她更是當(dāng)之無愧的“琴壇驕女”，無論演出合約還是唱片的發(fā)行，都始終走在同行的前列，她便是美籍韓裔小提琴家張永宙（Sarah Chang）。 1981年出生于美國賓州費城一個韓國人家庭的張永宙（Sarah Chang），四歲開始學(xué)習(xí)小提琴起，就不得不稱為一個奇跡。學(xué)習(xí)還不到三年，便得到與指揮家梅塔及紐約愛樂樂團合作在林肯中心著名的“艾弗里·費雪大廳”演出的機會，更意想不到的曲目竟然是帕格尼尼的《D大調(diào)第一小提琴協(xié)奏曲》！那次合作由于時間匆忙，幾乎沒有經(jīng)過什么排練，就正式演出了，但小薩拉倒是毫不畏懼，她近乎完美的發(fā)揮讓梅塔這位見多識廣大師也嘖嘖稱奇，自那之后也不斷給她很多機會與幫助。正是由于那次成功的演出，也是她引起了美國小提琴界的“教母”、朱麗亞音樂學(xué)院著名教授多蘿西·迪蕾（Dorothy Delay）的注意，將其收為學(xué)生。眾所周知，從迪蕾的班中曾走出了帕爾曼、祖克曼、沙哈姆等數(shù)不勝數(shù)的小提琴家，都大有作為，迪蕾的班級在很長一段時間內(nèi)也就好比是培養(yǎng)小提琴人才的源頭，使很多小提琴學(xué)習(xí)者仰慕。年幼的 Sarah Chang 能得到迪蕾的教導(dǎo)，自然又向成功邁出一步。迪蕾對這位才氣橫溢的學(xué)生關(guān)懷備至， Sarah Chang 所有的專業(yè)課幾乎都由她親自指點（迪蕾班上的學(xué)生多達數(shù)十位，有很多其實她只在那里掛名，多半的課都是由她的眾多助教指導(dǎo)的）。與此同時，迪蕾還盡可能多地為她尋找演出機會，使她在還不滿十歲時就與費城、芝加哥、匹茲堡等知名樂團合作，指揮也均是穆蒂、列文、揚松斯這樣的大牌?？梢哉f，Sarah Chang 今日的成功與這位名師曾經(jīng)給予的殷殷關(guān)切是密不可分的。 自1991年起，她成為EMI 唱片公司的專屬藝術(shù)家，走上了職業(yè)演奏家的道路，當(dāng)然在此后數(shù)年中也仍然接受著恩師的教導(dǎo)。這些年來，她的足跡遍及世界各地的音樂場所，1997年在卡內(nèi)基音樂廳的首演更為她帶來了不同凡響的聲譽，之后她又先后到肯尼迪中心、柏林愛樂大廳亮相。她平均每年在EMI 公司推出一張新作，成為該公司中錄音制品最暢銷的音樂家之一。由于她在首張錄音《Debut》中的出色表現(xiàn)，1993年《留聲機》雜志授于她“年度最佳青年藝術(shù)家獎”，六年后，她又得到了“艾弗里·費雪”大獎。與很多同行相比，Sarah Chang 的藝術(shù)之路頗為順暢，自幼成名、名師指點、多位藝術(shù)前輩對她厚愛有加，并沒有參加任何比賽便已獲得成功，似乎幸運之神始終對她特別眷顧。Sarah Chang 的錄音曲目主要包括很多重要的協(xié)奏曲和一些富有趣味性的小品與少數(shù)室內(nèi)樂作品。其對于作品精準(zhǔn)的理解、淋漓盡致地表達往往都能給人留下深刻、美好的印象。
An American violinist of Korean heritage, Sarah Chang was already a celebrity as a prepubescent soloist; unlike many child prodigies, she made the transition to adulthood painlessly, and remains a high-profile soloist on the international circuit.
She began performing in public at age 5; within two years, she had won the Starling scholarship to the Juilliard School, where she studied with Dorothy DeLay and Hyo Kang. At age 8, after only two years of study at Juilliard during which she still regarded playing the violin as a hobby, she auditioned for conductors Zubin Mehta and Riccardo Muti and bowled them over. She made her professional debut in 1988 performing Paganini's Violin Concerto No. 1 with Mehta and the New York Philharmonic. Soon she found herself playing Paganini, Tchaikovsky, and Sibelius concertos with the world's greatest orchestras, with an EMI recording contract tucked into her frock. Initial features and reviews focused on the incongruity of such technical virtuosity coming from a cute little girl, and coverage during her teen years was similarly half awed, half patronizing.
As she approached her twenties, Chang began to enjoy more serious critical appraisal. One critic summarized her attributes as "consummate technical ease, a gorgeous, vibrant, flawlessly beautiful tone, and a heartfelt but unsentimental expressiveness." Conversely, some of her performances of Romantic repertory were sometimes criticized for being slightly emotionally disengaged.
Chang quickly became associated with concertos of not only Paganini but also Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky, and Sibelius. She also advocated not-quite-standard concertos by Goldmark, Strauss, and Dvorák. But not until she was nearly 20 did Chang begin exploring chamber music with any frequency, initially playing in small festivals but also recording with other high-profile soloists on the EMI roster.
Less apparent from her discography is her interest in contemporary music. She has worked on new pieces with jazzman Eddie Karam, as well as Jack Elliott and Korean-American composer Donald Sur.
One area in which Chang has been slow to develop self-confidence is teaching. Feeling she was too young to be a credible authority, she didn't give her first master class until she was 22, and that was hidden away in Singapore. After that, she embarked on a small-scale series of recitals and educational events for rural and underserved populations in the United States.
Chang plays a 1717 Guarneri del Gesù; reluctant to expose it to hot lights, she uses a cheap but attractive stand-in violin for publicity photos.