Han-Na Chang

The Korean-born conductor Han-Na Chang started her career as a cellist. She serves as chief conductor of the Trondheim Symphony in Norway. A native of Suwon in South Korea's Gyeonggi-do province, Chang was born December 23, 1982. She took up the piano at age three but switched to cello when she was six. Her family moved to the U.S. in 1993, partly so that she could enroll at the Juilliard School in New York in its pre-college division. Her teacher there was Aldo Parisot; she also took private lessons from Mischa Maisky in Italy. The following year, she entered the Rostropovi...