Taiwan-born, New Zealand-raised, and previously UK-based, Amy Chang is a collaborative pianist, répétiteur, and vocal coach based in the Netherlands. In addition to a busy schedule as a freelancer, Amy is a vocal coach at Codarts University of the Arts in Rotterdam, and was the interim music staff/artistic bureau at De Nederlandse Reisopera (2025-26), interim vocal coach at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam (2025), Studio Répétiteur at Dutch National Opera (2022-24), and a Britten-Pears Young Artist (2022-23). An alumna of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (MMus Repetiteurship) and the University of Auckland (MMus First Class Honours Vocal Accompaniment, PGDipMus Collaborative Piano and Voice, BMus Classical Piano and Voice Performance), Amy was retained as répétiteur and vocal coach at both institutions upon graduation, and have since played at Dutch National Opera (2022-Present), De Nederlandse Reisopera (2024-Present), Opera Zuid (2023, 2024), If Opera (2022), Byre Opera (2022), Edinburgh Studio Opera (2021-22), Mahogany Opera (2022), and British Youth Opera (2020, 2021). For Amy’s full repertoire credits please click here.
On the concert platform, Amy has performed song recitals and concerts at prestigious venues in the Netherlands, including Het Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Concertgebouw de Vereeniging in Nijmegen, Muziekgebouw in Eindhoven, and Theater aan het Parade in Den Bosch. An established Lied Duo with soprano Elenora Hu, together they were semifinalists and winners of the Vriendin van het Lied Engagement Prize at the 2023 International Vocal Competition ‘s-Hertogenbosch (LiedDuo), and they perform specially curated programmes together regularly throughout the Netherlands. Competition accolades from the UK include semifinalists at the Jack Donnelly Memorial Mozart Singing Competition with Jonathan Forbes Kennedy, the Rodney Gibson Early Music Prize with Emily Hodkinson at the 2021 Patricia Routledge National English Song Competition, and the 2021 Elgar/Spedding Memorial Lieder Prize with James Quilligan.
Prior to moving to the UK, Amy kept a busy calendar as a collaborative pianist thoughout New Zealand’s various regional and national singing competitions, including the New Zealand Aria, PACANZ National Young Performer of the Year, DMMF Napier Aria (official accompanist 2019), North Shore Senior Vocal & Becroft Aria, Wellington Aria, and the South Auckland Vocal Competitions. Amy was a staff vocal coach at the University of Auckland School of Music, and was also an itinerant teacher for various primary and secondary school’s music and choral programmes throughout Auckland.
Formerly a singer, Amy credits her choral singing background as one of her inspirations for pursuing a life in music. Amy was a member of the internationally acclaimed New Zealand Youth Choir (2015-2019, tour to Singapore, Czech Republic, France, and England in 2016; Tonga, Fiji, New Caledonia, and Australia in 2019), the Auckland Chamber Choir (2014-2019), and was in 2018-2019 invited to sing in Voices New Zealand. As a member of these choirs, Amy has sung in concerts collaborating with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra (Beethoven Symphony No. 9, Holst The Planets), Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra (Bach Magnificat, St Matthew Passion, Holst The Planets, Pärt Berliner Messe, Tippett A Child of Our Time), NZSO National Youth Orchestra (Elgar The Music Makers).
Amy is grateful for the support from generous private donors, RCS Trust Postgraduate Scholarship, University of Auckland Kathleen Mary Reardon Travelling Scholarship in Music, Waikanae Music Society Charitable Trust for Young Musicians Scholarship, and both the 2019 and 2020 Dame Malvina Major Foundation Arts Excellence Awards during her studies at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (2019-2021).
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