Jocelyn Chang and Michael Leese have mesmerized audiences for more than 15 years with performances of their beautiful, artful arrangements. The Harp and Flute program composed for Jennings offers a broad array of styles designed to please virtually all musical palettes. The audience will hear popular favorites such as "Over the Rainbow," as well as distinct classical arrangements during the one-hour feature. In addition to enjoying the cleverly composed musical arrangements, Jocelyn and Michael will also engage the audience through brief introductions and explanations throughout the program. The expressions will offer support to frame musical pieces, illustrate a particular mood or offer education about the instruments. Following the program, the musical duo will answer questions from the audience.

About Jocelyn Chang
Jocelyn Chang, always a champion of harp and new music, participates in festivals, conferences, workshops, and concerts, working directly with composers to perform their music for all types of audiences. She has commissioned and premiered many works for harp by composers from all over North America, Europe, and Taiwan, where she founded the harp department at the Chinese Cultural University and taught full-time from 1977-1981. The leader in the exploration of a revolutionary new invention, the Dilling harp, she has commissioned and premiered over 70 works expressly for this instrument, either solo or in combination with other instruments or choir.

Jocelyn is principal harpist and a founding member of the award-winning Cleveland Chamber Symphony. Her talent for improvisation has been showcased in collaborations in music, dance, theater, poetry, visual art, sculpture and performance art. She has performed on radio and television in the U.S., Romania and Bulgaria, and appears on over two dozen CDs and videos. Her harp/flute duo with composer/flutist Michael Leese gives over 100 performances a year in venues ranging from experimental theater to corporate dinner parties, concert series, and worship services.

A graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Music and Cleveland State University, she currently teaches at CSU, Cuyahoga Community College, Baldwin-Wallace Conservatory, Cleveland Music School Settlement and Beck Center for the Arts. She has conducted workshops on improvisation in Cleveland, San Diego, Hartford and Berlin, and has given master-classes for performance in Bulgaria and China. She and Michael Leese are co-directors of the Jocelyn Chang Harp Ensemble which is in residence at the Beck Center for the Arts.

About Michael Leese
Michael Leese (BM, Jacksonville University; MM Boston University) is a composer, flutist, teacher and lecturer. A MacDowell Colony fellow, his music has been featured in concerts and festivals across North America, South America, Europe and Asia. His workshops and concerts of improvisation have been offered as far afield as Germany and Bulgaria, and as close to home as the Cleveland Institute of Music. He has lectured on his music at Indiana University at Bloomington, University of Nevada at Las Vegas, Hartt School of Music, Cleveland State University, and to numerous secondary school students. His solo harp piece, Dilling Fantasy, was selected as the required American work for the 2001 USA International Harp Competition at Indiana University at Bloomington. His chamber work, Music for Harp, Percussion, and Strings, was premiered by the Cleveland Chamber Symphony in 2002, and appears on a Cleveland Composers Guild CD released by Capstone Records. Music of Michael Leese, a CD of his solo and chamber music, was released in the fall of 2005 by LiZhang Records. He currently teaches at Baldwin-Wallace Conservatory, Cleveland Music School Settlement and Beck Center for the Arts. Michael has produced the CD recording sessions of the Cleveland Chamber Symphony since 1997.

For information about scheduling or enjoying performances of Cleveland's own musical duo, Jocelyn Chang and Michael Leese, call them at 216-321-8296.