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A native of Taiwan,
violinist Nancy
Chang has performed
internationally
under some of
the world’s most celebrated
conductors.
As a member of the
Verbier Orchestra in
Switzerland from
2003 to 2007, Chang
toured over 20 countries,
performing
regularly under the batons of James Levine, Charles
Dutoit and Gustavo Dudamel, to name a few. She
received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in
violin performance from the Manhattan School of
Music, studying principally with Ik-Hwan Bae, Lucy
Robert and Peter Wenograd. In addition, she had
master classes with Sydney Harth, William Preucil,
Miriam Fried and Glen Dicterow. Following her
years of study in New York, Chang was appointed a
fellow at the New World Symphony in Miami Beach
under the baton of Michael Tilson Thomas, where
she served as rotating concertmaster from 2003 to
2006. She is a former ASTA competition winner and
has performed as soloist with The Florida Orchestra,
Burbank Chamber Orchestra, West Los Angeles
Symphony and California State Los Angeles University
Orchestra. Chang has served as a faculty at the
Eastern Music Festival and has attended Spoleto
USA and the Texas Music Festival. Other professional
orchestra experience includes appearances with
the Albany Symphony, Sarasota Orchestra and the
Opera Tampa Orchestra, where she currently serves
as concertmaster. Chang joined The Florida Orchestra
in 2006 and was appointed associate concertmaster
in 2007.
Originally from Minnesota,
Derek Mosloff
joined The Florida
Orchestra in January
of 2017. He was a
viola fellow at New
World Symphony in
Miami Beach, and he
was principal viola
with the New England
Conservatory
Chamber Orchestra
and Orchestra of Indian
Hill in Massachusetts. He has performed with
the Discovery Ensemble in Boston, Atlantic Symphony
in Massachusetts and Lincoln Symphony Orchestra.
He has been a music fellow at the Tanglewood
Music Festival in Massachusetts and festival violist
for the Chelsea Music Festival in New York City.
Mosloff started playing the viola at age 11 in the
public school orchestra. Not knowing which instrument
to play, he was told the group needed more
viola players. Mosloff began studying with Jonah
Sirota of the Chiara String Quartet only two years
after starting in the school system and it made a
lasting impression: “Studying with him and seeing
what was possible with the viola was incredibly
inspiring. I remember one instance, when he
played a little of the Bach Chaconne on the viola. I
was awestruck at how one string instrument could
produce multiple voices at the same time, each
part singing its own individual line. Hearing that
has stuck with me to this day.” Mosloff received
his master’s in viola performance from the New
England Conservatory and bachelor’s in viola performance
from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
In his free time, Mosloff enjoys reading, playing
keyboard Bach, and taking long walks with
his wife and their American Eskimo dog, Sochi.
NANCY CHANG
Violin
DEREK MOSLOFF
Viola