A native of Taiwan, violinist Chung-Mei Chang grew up in Brazil. She studied with Ayrton Pinto at Sao Paulo State University and Peter Zazofsky at Boston University, where she also had extensive chamber music coachings with the Muir String Quartet and Raphael Hillyer. She was a fellow at Tanglewood, Taos and several other prestigious music festivals. As a chamber musician, with an avid interest in contemporary music, she has performed in countries such as Germany, France, Italy, Greece, Israel and Brazil. She has held numerous orchestral positions, among them the Hong Kong Philharmonic and Orquesta Sinfonica de Galicia, in Spain.