Described as "evocative and kaleidoscopic" (Seattle Times), the music of composer Dorothy Chang (b. 1970) has been performed by orchestras including the Albany (NY) Symphony, Aspen Concert Orchestra, Chicago Civic Orchestra, Indianapolis Symphony, Queens Symphony, Seattle Symphony, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and Vancouver Symphony, as well as by chamber ensembles including eighth blackbird, the Smith Quartet (UK), the Chicago Saxophone Quartet, Collage New Music (Boston), North/South Consonance (New York), Music from China, and Toca Loca (Toronto). She has received commissions from Chamber Music America, the Barlow Endowment, the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, the Canada Council for the Arts and the British Columbia Arts Council, among others. Her music has been featured in concerts and festivals across North America and abroad, most recently at the PAN Music Festival (Seoul), Lontano Festival (UK), and World Music Days in Hong Kong.

Dorothy's music has been recognized through honors and prizes including a Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, awards from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, the International Alliance for Women in Music, Mu Phi Epsilon, the National Society of Arts and Letters, Meet the Composer and the Jacob Druckman Orchestra Prize from the Aspen Music Festival. She has held residencies at the Banff Centre for the Arts, MacDowell Colony, Ragdale Foundation, Atlantic Center for the Arts and the Lancaster Music Festival. For the 2005-2008 concert seasons, she has been appointed composer-in-residence of the Albany Symphony Orchestra through the Music Alive program of Meet the Composer and the American Symphony Orchestra League.

Dorothy is composer and co-founder of the Riverbed Theatre Company, which specializes in collaborative, image-based theatre productions. Performances have included The Peacock Maiden, a children’s musical production in Santa Barbara, CA, rice/water which was featured on the First Annual Taiwanese Experimental Theatre Festival, Burnt Rice which was hailed as “one of the top 10 productions in 1998” by the Pobao Arts Weekly (Taipei), and additional collaborations produced in Boston and Chicago. Recently she collaborated on Tinquero, which was featured in 2004 at the Eslite Art Space in Taipei as well as the Kaohsiung Arts Museum in Kaoshiung, Taiwan. As composer-in-residence of the Kylix New Music Ensemble from 1999-2001, Dorothy composed several new works for the group and participated in educational outreach concerts at the Contemporary Performer’s Workshop in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Born in Winfield, Illinois, Dorothy began her music studies on piano at age six and began composing at the age of fourteen. She received degrees in composition from the University of Michigan (B.M., M.M.) and the Indiana University School of Music (D.M). She has served on the music faculty at Indiana State University and is presently Assistant Professor of Music at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.