Bo Chang, mezzo-soprano, has worked with the Lucerne Festival Acedemy Orchestra, San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, The Juilliard Percussion Ensemble, The New Juilliard Ensemble, Ensemble Sospeso, Ensemble NOW, American Contemporary Music Ensemble and Continuum among others, and gave concerts at various venues in Asia, Europe and the US. Her repertory includes Luciano Berio's Circles and Folk Songs, John Cage's Aria, and works by George Crumb, Pierre Boulez, Jacob Druckman, Salvatore Sciarrino, Gyorgy Ligeti, Guo Wenjing, Leonid Hrabovsky, Paul Chihara, Louis Andriessen, and Yanov-Yanovksy.

A versatile artist, Bo has sung operatic roles ranging from the Baroque to the present - Satirino in Cavalli's La Calisto, Lazuli in Chabrier's L'Étoile, and Hermia in Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream along with Cherubino, Carmen, Maddalena (Rigoletto), Cornelia (Giulio Cesare), Bradamante (Alcina), and Orfeo. She sang the role of Manjali in the world premiere of the Indonesian composer Tony Prabowo's opera, The King's Witch at Alice Tully Hall, and performed as an actor/dancer in the U.S. premiere of Mark Anthony Turnage's opera, Greek at the Aspen Music Festival. 

Last year, her close collaboration with Continuum took her on an unforgettable tour of Mongolia where musicians and dancers of various discipline and style traveled the countryside and performed for the nomads and townspeople, and in the National History Museum in Ulaan Bataar. She also traveled with Continuum to Indonesia to give the first fully staged version of Prabowo's The King's Witch - this time singing the role of Calon Arang.

Bo has performed works by Ruth Crawford Seeger and Virgil Thomson at the Lucerne Festival in Switzerland, and returned to the festival in 2006 for a series of concerts of works by Boulez, Ligeti, Pintscher, Schoenberg and Webern under the direction of Daniel Reuss and Pierre Boulez. For the Centennial season of the Ravinia Festival, she was a featured artist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Christoph Eschenbach, sang André Caplet's rarely heard Trois Fables de Jean de la Fontaine at the Steans Institute, and took part in a non-stop marathon recital dedicated to Charles Ives. She gave the U.S. premiere of Sciarrino's Infinito Nero and Le Voci Sottovetro at the 2003 Lincoln Center Festival, for which she was praised for her "excellent and precise" execution.

On her recent performance of Camp Songs by Paul Schoenfield, based on poems by Aleksander Kulisiewicz, a concentration camp survivor, The New York Times called her a "terrific singer" and that she "underlined the power of the anger beneath the velvet glove of a luxuriously good performance."

The upcoming season includes the first time collaborations with ensembles counter)induction and ECCE (East Coast Composers Ensemble), George Crumb's Ancient Voices of Children at Hunter College, and Schoenberg's Pierro Lunaire in English with the American Comtemporary Music Ensemble.

Bo received her B.M. at the Manhattan School of Music and M.M. at The Juilliard School where she studied with Cynthia Hoffmann, and currently continues her studies with Irene Gubrud in New York City. Bo is an avid practitioner of Vinyasa Yoga, her second passion to music.

Bo Chang


   Mezzo-Soprano
   Bo Chang

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