Vivian Chang won the 2025 CSYO Concerto Competition to perform on this year’s CSO/CSYO Side-By-Side concert. However, Chang’s high school orchestra is on tour and she is unable to perform. Chang will perform the third movement of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto at a future concert.

Vivian Chang, age 18, is a senior at Mason High School. She has been studying violin with Hong Cheng since age 4. Chang has served as concertmaster of the Cincinnati Symphony Youth Orchestras, her school orchestra and OMEA’s Regional and All-State orchestras. In 2023, Chang was accepted into Carnegie Hall’s National Youth Orchestra NYO2, joining NYO’s Dominican Republic concert tour and cross-cultural activities.

Chang’s accomplishments in young artist and concerto competitions have earned her featured soloist opportunities with the Dayton Philharmonic, Louisville Orchestra, Blue Ash and Montgomery Symphony Orchestra, Mason Symphony and Cincinnati Symphony Youth Orchestra. 

Among her awards and prizes are first place and the Judges’ Distinction Award at the 2023 American Protégé International Concerto Competition, first prize at the 2024 Barcelona “Grand Prize Virtuoso” International Music Competition, winner of the 2024 Tri-State String Competition, first place winner of the 2022 Senior Strings Division in the Fiorito International Music Festival, and three-time state winner of the OMTA Buckeye Auditions. In 2024, Chang became a national finalist (one of seven finalists from 2,000+ entrants) of the Music Teachers National Association’s Senior Strings Performance Competition. Chang also was National Public Radio’s From the Top Finalist and will be featured on From the Top’s “Daily Joy” program in 2025.