Jocelyn Chang was born in Renton, Washington, where she currently attends Kentridge High School as a junior. She began studying violin at the age of five and is presently a student of Leonid Keylin. Jocelyn has also been active with the Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestras since 1997. In 2005, she won the 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. In the following year, Chang became the second recipient of Music of Remembrances's 2006 David Tonkonogui Award. She is also studying piano with Victoria Bogdashevskaya and has been playing for about eleven years.