Yoo-Jung Chang, a cellist from Seoul, South Korea, has built a career as a recitalist, orchestral and chamber musician, and educator in the US, Austria, and South Korea. She has won an array of awards in competitions such as the Nan-Pa Music Competition, Korean Brahms Association Competition, Pasadena Music Scholarship Competition and Gail Newby Concerto Competition. 

Chang has collaborated with composers and new music ensembles such as Jack Quartet, Bright Sheng, Caroline Shaw and David Gompper and has been invited to University of Nebraska-Kearney New Music Series and Festival and Midwest Composer’s Symposiums at Indiana University and Cincinnati Conservatory.   

As an active orchestral and chamber musician, Chang has performed with various ensembles, including Opera San Antonio, Ballet San Antonio, Ballet San Angelo, Opera Idaho, Fresno Philharmonic Orchestra (CA), Chicago Civic Orchestra, International Chamber Soloists Ensemble (NY), Ohio Light Opera, Connecticut Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra, YMF Debut Orchestra (CA), Korean Symphony Orchestra, and AIMS Festival Orchestra (Graz, Austria). She also has performed with many notable artists including Yo-Yo Ma, Joshua Bell, Emanuel Ax, Lang Lang, Myung-Whun Chung, Cavani Quartet and Enso Quartet.

As an educator, Chang was on the Grinnell College music faculty from 2011-2019 and has served on the faculties of St. Ambrose University, Augustana College, Central College, and El Camino College. 

Yoo-Jung Chang currently serves as a cellist with the Quad City Symphony Orchestra, Victoria Symphony Orchestra, and Corpus Christi Symphony Orchestra, and is a faculty member at Trinity University and Angelo State University.