The Chameleons

• Deborah Boldin, flute, artistic director
• Vivian Chang-Freiheit, piano
• Gloria Chien, piano
• Nancy Dimock, oboe
• Gary Gorczyca, clarinet
• Whitacre Hill, horn
• Joanna Kurkowicz, violin
• William Manley, percussion
• Kelli O'Connor, clarinet
• Margaret Phillips, bassoon
• Rafael Popper-Keizer, cello
• Anna Reinersman, harp
• Scott Woolweaver, viola
• Gabriel Langfur, managing director
• Hans Spencer, education program

Artistic Director

Guest Artists

Vivian Chang-Freiheit

piano

The New York Concert Review describes Vivian Chang-Freiheit as an "excellent pianist… [producing] very delicate, fine phrasing, always singing lines knowing full aware that Schubert is the master lieder composer." In recital with principal cellist of the Bavarian Radio Orchestra Wen-Sinn Yang, she was praised for "delivering a conscientious, intelligent interpretation that made telling musical sense." Her Boston premiere of Rebecca Clarke's violin and piano sonata with fellow Chameleon member Joanna Kurkowicz was listed in the Boston Globe's "Best Concerts of 2000."

Vivian Chang-Freiheit made her solo debut with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra at the age of 16. As a frequent collaborator with singers and instrumentalists, she has performed in Alice Tully Hall, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, the 92nd Street Y, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Lincoln Center, Trinity Church, Taiwan National Hall, and in venues throughout the United States, Germany and the Czech Republic. Ms. Chang-Freiheit also performs as a frequent guest artist with the Formosa Chamber Music Society at Carnegie Hall and as a core member of the award-winning MOTYL Chamber Ensemble in New York. She has also performed live on WGBH Boston Public Radio.

Ms. Chang-Freiheit studied both piano and violin at the Oberlin College-Conservatory, where she graduated Pi Kappa Lambda and received the Dean's Talent Award. Her primary teachers were violinist Stephen Clapp and pianist Joseph Schwartz. She continued her piano studies with Samuel Sanders at the Juilliard School with support of the William Petschek Piano Scholarship. She earned both master and doctor of music degrees, and completed her thesis, titled "Accompanying in the United States," in 2001. As the first recipient of the Citibank-Juilliard Stipendium and winner of the Huntington Beebe scholarship Ms. Chang-Freiheit spent two years in Germany, where she served as a vocal coach at the Leipzig Opera House and studied with Joel Shapiro in Leipzig and Phillip Moll in Berlin. Currently, Ms. Chang-Freiheit makes her home in New York with her husband and two sons.

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