Taiwanese-New Zealand pianist Amy Chang is a vocal coach and répétiteur based in the Netherlands. Previously living in the UK, Amy moved to Amsterdam in 2022 to join the National Opera Studio at the Nationale Opera en Ballet, where she worked until 2024. Since 2024, she has been working as a vocal coach in the Classical Singing department at Codarts Rotterdam. She also works as a freelancer with De Nationale Opera, the Nederlandse Reisopera and Opera Zuid, and performs regularly in the Netherlands in song recitals with soprano Elenora Hu.
Versatile in her repertoire, Amy works both as a performing musician and as a coach with a wide range of vocal styles, from Baroque operas to contemporary song art and musical theatre. On the concert and competition stage, Amy has won several awards, including the 2023 Friends of the Song Engagement Prize with Elenora Hu at the International Vocal Competition ‘s-Hertogenbosch. In the UK, she won the semi-finals of the Jack Donnelly Memorial Mozart Singing Competition with Jonathan Forbes Kennedy in 2022; the Rodney Gibson Early Music Prize with Emily Hodkinson at the Patricia Routledge National English Song Competition and the Elgar/Spedding Memorial Lieder Prize with James Quilligan, both in 2021.
Amy is alumna of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (MMus Rehearsal) and the University of Auckland (MMus(Hons) Vocal Accompaniment) and was appointed vocal coach by both institutions after graduation. She has also worked at If Opera (London 2022), Byre Opera (St Andrews 2022), Edinburgh Studio Opera (2021-22) and British Youth Opera (London 2022/21). Highlights of her opera repertoire include Der Rosenkavalier, Dialogues des Carmélites, Die Zauberflöte, Flight, Giulio Cesare, Hänsel und Gretel, La Rondine, La Traviata, L'Occasione fa il ladro, Orphée aux Enfers, Pelléas et Mélisande and Rusalka.
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