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Hana Chang (violin) Jonathan Ware (piano)

Hosted by the LSE Lunchtime Concert Series

Shaw Library, 6th floor, Old Building

Born in 2002, Hana Chang was a winner of the 2023 Young Classical Artists Trust and Concert Artists Guild International Auditions held at Wigmore Hall. She was nominated as one of Classic FM’s Rising Stars of 2024, and has recently been announced as a Borletti-Buitoni Fellowship recipient and a member of BBC Radio 3's New Generation Artist scheme 2024-26.

Hana has performed with orchestras including the Prague Radio Symphony, Philharmonie Baden-Baden, Czech Virtuosi, Belgian National Orchestra, Hunan Symphony, Utah Symphony, Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra, Poznań Philharmonic, and Tallinn Chamber Orchestra. She is a laureate of the Stuttgart, Yehudi Menuhin, Prague Spring, Beethoven Hradec, Stradivarius, and Louis Spohr International Violin Competitions. Most recently, she was named a laureate of the 2024 Queen Elisabeth International Violin Competition.

Texas-born pianist Jonathan Ware trained at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, at New York’s Juilliard School, and at the Hochschule für Musik ‘Hanns Eisler’ in Berlin. He has won major awards, included the first prize of the 2014 lied competition of the Internationale Hugo-Wolf-Akademie in Stuttgart with baritone Ludwig Mittelhammer, as well as the accompanist prize at the Wigmore Hall International Song Competition and Das Lied Competition. Concerts have taken him to Alice Tully Hall and Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall in New York, Wigmore Hall in London, the Ravinia Festival, and the Berliner Festspiele, among others.

Programme to include:

Mozart Violin Sonata No 23 in D Major, K306

Elgar Violin Sonata in E minor Op 82

The next lunchtime concert is on Thursday 6 February and will be performed by Tim Horton (piano).

Join the LSE Choir and Orchestra on Tuesday 1 April for the LSE Spring Concert in the beautiful surroundings of St Clement Danes Church.

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