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By Donald Rosenberg Plain Dealer Reporter
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Jocelyn Chang, a Cleveland harpist who was a major contributor to new music here and around the world, died of complications of cancer Friday at Hospice of the Western Reserve. She was 59.
The Cleveland Heights resident was a founding member and principal harpist of the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, the Grammy Award-winning professional ensemble devoted to music by 20th-century and living composers.
A tireless advocate for new music, Chang helped commission dozens of works and performed these scores — many expressly for the harp — in Cleveland and at national festivals and conferences. She held workshops on improvisation throughout the United States and Europe, as well as in China.
Chang was also an admired teacher. A graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Music and Cleveland State University, she taught at CSU, Baldwin-Wallace College’s Conservatory of Music, Kent State University, Cuyahoga Community College, the Music Settlement and Beck Center for the Arts.
“I think most students would agree her expectations for them were rather high and challenging to meet,” said Julia Kay Jamieson, a Chang student who is a professional harpist in Illinois.
“She could be tough on her students and we felt it as huge respect. What a compliment to have greatness expected of you. I think that was brave and bold of her as a teacher.”
Chang championed a revolutionary invention, the Dilling harp, for which she commissioned and premiered more than 70 works. She performed in a harp-flute duo with her husband, composer and recording producer Michael Leese.
He filed a patent back in 1925 for a folk harp that had a pedal harp look similar to the L&H Prelude,
What is there to know about VENUS and why are we being pulled into a discussion about L&H and their harps and prices.
You are very welcome Basel, hope you make some good friends here to chat with and exchange info for a long time to come.
America is based on Immigrants and people that do not have English as their first language, so Basel communicating from another country is not going to have a command of the English language in speech or writing like most of us here that are born/educated here or immigrated here long enough ago to have fairly mastered the language in both forms. I know plenty of people that cannot speak or write as well as Basel that are multigenerational American. Basel is very real and definitely a Professional in what he does in his end of the world.
Hi Carl
The number of teachers I talked to that got these email scams, their email was taken off lists they were on as “harp teachers and gigging harpists” for a specific area and/or city, both on websites and in print publications of varying kinds.
Saul and Julie, both of those are almost identical to some of the scams other harp teachers received in the past 2 years.
Knew I forgot something.. Amy is 100% correct natural is the most forgiving when it comes to dings and dents from gigging and moving.
