Jocelyn Chang, violin, Music of Remembrances's 2006 David Tonkonogui Award Winner, was born in Renton, Washington, and attends Kentridge High School. Currently a student of Leonid Keylin, she began playing violin at the age of 5. Since 1997, Change has been active with the Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra, while also studying the piano with Victoria Bogdashevskaya. In 2002, she enrolled at the Academy of Music Northwest, and, that summer, attended the Meadowmount School of Music, studying with Sally Thomas and Ann Setzer. In 2003, she won first place for the piano concerto division and also first place in solo violin at the Performing Arts of Festival of the Eastside. In 2005, she won Port Gardner Bay Competition, and performed as soloist; the next year, she was named the 9th-Grade Winner of the WSMTA Eastside Chapter Piano Scholarship Competition.