Eileen Chang

Eileen Chang, Artistic Director of Cantabella Children’s Chorus and Conductor of Honors Choir and Children’s Choir, did her undergraduate studies in Voice Performance at CSU Long Beach and her graduate studies in Choral Conducting at the Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey. Ms. Chang studied with Dr. Joseph Flummerfelt and performed as a member of the Westminster Choir. She has sung under the direction of Kurt Mazur, Lorin Maazel, and Wolf Sawallisch in various venues including the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, and the Spoleto Festival USA. Ms. 

Ms. Chang is passionate about choral music and all related activities. She has served as a lecturer at the Presbyterian Seminary of Korea and Hyupsung University, teaching Conducting Technique and Choral Literature. She is the founder and Artistic Director of New Choir based out of and choral literature. Under her direction, Cantabella’s Honors Choir has won numerous awards at the 2009 and 2015 Golden Gate International Festival, the 2012 World Choir Games in Cincinnati, Kathaumixw Festival in 2018, World Youth Choral Festival in South Korea in 2019, and was privileged to perform at the ACDA Western Regional Conference in Santa Barbara, 2014. Ms. Chang also served as a guest conductor at the California Music Educators Association Central California Middle School Honor Choir Festival in January 2016 and led a clinic for children’s choir directors at Jeju International Choral Symposium in 2018.

In the past, Ms. Chang has served as the choir conductor for the Sanctuary Choir at the Westminster Presbyterian Church in San Jose and Daesung Korean Presbyterian Church in Sunnyvale.

One of Ms. Chang’s favorite memories is her honeymoon with husband James bicycling from San Francisco to Los Angeles. She will always remember the colors of the trees in Big Sur and the sound of the waves of the Pacific Ocean while on her bike. Eileen and James are the parents of three children.