Recent and Upcoming Events

• Premiere of a new chamber work for the SUNY Chamber Players (September 2008)
  
  
• Premiere of a new orchestral work commissioned by the Meet the Composer Women’s Philharmonic Commissioning Project; Marin Alsop (conductor) and the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra (July 2008)

• Premiere of Along the River of Stars for orchestra; David Alan Miller (conductor) and the Albany Symphony Orchestra. Funded by Meet the Composer/American Symphony Orchestra League (May 2008)

• Premiere of a new work for the Touch of Brass Ensemble, commissioned by the Redshift Society Vertical Orchestra project, with funding from the Canada Council for the Arts (March 2008)

• Embers for Chinese music ensemble, performed by the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra at World Music Days 2007 in Hong Kong (November 2007)

• Flight, concerto for flute and orchestra, performed by flautist Paolo Bortolussi and the Vancouver Island Symphony, Fusao Kajima, conductor (November 2007)

• Beautiful Things for string quartet performed by the Pacific Rim String Quartet on the Music at Pacific series in Vancouver (November 2007). Also performed by the Attacca Quartet on the Summergarden Series at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (July 2007)

• Chamber Variations for chamber orchestra performed by the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra as part of the Emerging Composers Competition (May 2007). Also performed by Joel Sachs (conductor) and the New Juilliard Ensemble (September 2007)
  

• Premiere of Waiting for large ensemble and video, in collaboration with videographer Kyra Garrigue; David Alan Miller (conductor) and Dogs of Desire in Rensselaer, New York (March 2007)

Short Stories

“Chang writes with intelligence, a shimmering palette of colors and inventive development techniques. Her string writing has lushness and her choices of instruments as moments of color were often inspired.”

The Daily Gazette ( Albany , NY , March 2004)

Wind/Unwind

“…a dynamic exploration of abstract motion by young composer Dorothy Chang. With its graceful, unfolding spirals, dense contractions and explosive bursts of energy, the work evokes a vivid world of sound, movement and color.”

Chicago , Illinois , (October 2003)

Music of Wonder

“Chang..is obviously a composer who knows her craft and likes to explore an orchestra's spectrum of color.”

The Daily Gazette ( Albany , NY , December 2002)

Sunan Dances

“Dorothy Chang's 1995 Sunan Dances is a highly pictorial memoir of a visit to China , evocative and kaleidoscopic, with a strong rhythmic pulse.”

Seattle Times (May 2001)

Light Fragments

“…a tightly constructed and explosive brief invention”.

The Boston Phoenix (December 1997)