Jerry Chang, 14, lives in St Louis, Missouri, is an 8th grader at the John Burroughs School. He studies piano with Zena Ilyashov at the Community Music School of Webster University. Jerry has competed and won top prizes in many competitions, including the two-time winner of MTNA Missouri State Piano Competition junior division, four-time first prize at the MMTA State Piano Competition, first prize of Young Artist I category and Grand Prize finalist of Chicago International Music Competition, first prize of Chopin International Piano Competition at Hartford, Gold Medal of Steinway Junior Piano Competition, St. Louis division, first prize Chopin of US New Star Music Competition, second prize Paderewski International Piano Competition Junior Category, first prize of Southern Illinois University Young Pianist Competition and third prize at the Kaufman Youth International Piano Competition Junior division. Most recently, Jerry was selected as the co-winner of the Artist Presentation Society. Jerry has performed with the Alton Symphony Orchestra in Illinois, the Virtuosi Brunensis Orchestra in Italy, and the Metropolitan Orchestra of St. Louis. Jerry was selected to perform on NPR's "From the Top" program with the first appearance on show #356 in Boston and was interviewed by NPR's "All Things Considered" emeritus host Robert Siegel. In 2020, Jerry was selected to appear multiple times on "From the Top" Daily Joy programs, and later was invited to perform a solo virtual mini-concert with the program and interviewed by host Peter Dugan. Most recently, in June 2021, Jerry was invited to perform on NPR’s” Tiny Desk(Home) Concert” as one of the four students(and the youngest) in the nation.