Taiwanese-American pianist YA-TING CHANG has performed extensively in U.S. Europe and Asia as a soloist and chamber musician. From 1997 until 2025, Chang was a member of the Mendelssohn Piano Trio which she co-founded together with her husband, violinist Peter Sirotin. The group performed over 600 concerts in U.S. and abroad, was featured on NPR’s “Performance Today” and WETA “Front Row Washington,” as well as recorded 15 critically acclaimed CDs, including the complete Haydn Piano Trios on Centaur Records. 

 

Chang has collaborated with pianist/conductor Stuart Malina, oboist Gerard Reuter, bassoonist Peter Kolkay, members of Baltimore Symphony, National Symphony, Washington National Opera, Memphis Symphony and Harrisburg Symphony orchestras, as well as renowned cellist Ronald Leonard, with whom she recorded a CD of cello sonatas by Grieg and Dohnányi. Chang appeared as a soloist with the Harrisburg Symphony, Gettysburg Chamber Orchestra and Hong Kong Chamber Orchestra. As part of the Sirotin-Chang Duo, she had given world premieres of Jeremy Gill’s Duo for Violin and Piano and Ching-Ju Shih’s Double Concerto for Violin and Piano with the National Taiwan Normal University Symphony at the National Concert Hall in Taipei, Taiwan. 

 

For 23 years she was a member of the piano faculty at Messiah University in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, where she co-founded and directed the “Chamber Music in Grantham” summer program for young musicians and composers from 2006 until 2019. 

 

Since 2011, Chang has been the co-director of Market Square Concerts, a nationally recognized chamber music presenter, and in 2023 she received the Arts Award for Distinguished Service to the Arts in the Capital Region of Pennsylvania.

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