Chang Shen – Director of Music
Chang holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore, where he majored in bassoon performance and minored in piano performance. He has also studied at the Oberlin Conservatory in Oberlin, Ohio. He has served as church accompanist for the Unitarian Universalists of San Mateo, the Estonian Lutheran Congregation of Northern California, Sei Ko Kai Christ (Episcopal) Church, and is the son of a Southern Baptist minister. Chang currently lives in Baltimore where he is continuing his musical studies, offers private piano lessons, and teaches piano in Worthington Elementary School’s after-school program. In addition to his other talents, Chang brings an affable personality and a wonderfully ecumenical (and eclectic) spirit to our church. He is fluent in Cantonese and Mandarin Chinese and is teaching himself to play the Theremin, an early electronic instrument first developed in 1919 that is designed to be played without being touched.