The music festival moves to Wheeler Theater, Fort Worden State Park in Port Townsend, where Chang will play July 16-17.

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Longtime patrons of the Olympic Music Festival’s original home in Quilcene — where concerts were performed in a non-insulated, picturesque barn with its entrance wide open — might have a little trouble adjusting to new digs this summer at Fort Worden’s enclosed Wheeler Theater in Port Townsend.

Superstar violinist Sarah Chang, who made her OMF debut in 2015 and returns July 16-17 to play Argentine composer Astor Piazzolla’s tango-infused “The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires,” fully appreciates the pastoral beauty of the Olympic Peninsula farm where the festival began in 1984. But she certainly doesn’t mind the change.

A veteran of many an outdoor and semi-outdoor summer music event at Tanglewood, Saratoga and the like, Chang can do without one particularly vexing occupational hazard on warm July days.

Concert preview

Sarah Chang

At the Olympic Music Festival. 2 p.m. July 16-17, Wheeler Theater, Fort Worden State Park, Port Townsend, $65 (800-838-3006 or olympicmusicfestival.org). Festival resumes Aug. 13.

“Mosquitoes are my No. 1 peeve,” Chang says with an infectious laugh by phone from New York, during her brief respite before a “brutal summer” of concerts sans roofs and climate control.

“The audience doesn’t know. Everyone is so happy, and they’re bringing picnics and drinking wine. So it’s relaxed, and that part is nice. But the mosquitoes are vicious. You want to start flailing at everything that’s trying to eat you alive.”

A former child prodigy accepted into the Juilliard School at age 5, Chang, 35, is among an elite class of violinists constantly touring and in nonstop demand by the world’s leading orchestras. Her appearance at the Wheeler this month tops the bill for the opening celebration of OMF’s summer 2016 season.

The concert also reunites her with an important musical ally: OMF’s new director and renowned pianist Julio Elizalde, a Juilliard classmate who has been Chang’s recital partner for three seasons.

During last year’s festival, Elizalde played a full program of duets with Chang, including pieces by Prokofiev, Vitali and Ravel. Piazzolla’s “Four Seasons” — written as four distinct tango compositions between 1965-70, but often played as a suite — will surround the pair with more string instruments.

“The ‘Four Seasons’ is big, but with a chamber atmosphere,” Chang says. “It’s such a cool piece. Piazzolla took Vivaldi’s ‘Four Seasons,’ which everybody and their grandmother know, and gave it a Latin American flair, turning it into tango. It is one of the most astonishing, beautifully written, very sexy, rhythmic, intelligently done works I’ve ever heard or played.”

Chang was born in Philadelphia in 1980 to a composer mother, Myoung-Jun, and a violinist father, Min-Soo Chang. In 1989, she began studying with the latter’s former instructor, Juilliard’s legendary Dorothy DeLay, whose 20th-century students included Itzhak Perlman and Nigel Kennedy.

That same year, Chang played her first solo dates with the New York Philharmonic and Philadelphia Orchestra. In 1991, she recorded her first album, the best-selling “Debut,” signaling the arrival of a great talent combining technical precision and finely shaded emotional expressiveness.

On her few days off, Chang serves as a special envoy for the U.S. State Department, performing master classes and bringing music to kids in hard-pressed schools in Bosnia, Ukraine and South Africa.

“It’s been incredibly rewarding for me because, after a while, you can only do that Tchaikovsky concerto 900 times before you say, there has to be more than this.”

OMF founder Alan Iglitzin retired at the end of the 2014 season, and requested that the organization’s board relocate the festival so he and his family — who own the barn — can enjoy it. OMF has formed a partnership with the Centrum Foundation, which hosts multidisciplinary arts events in Port Townsend.

At least for this season — which includes upcoming performances by members of GardenMusic and jazz pianist Fred Hersch — the change necessitated scaling back the schedule from 12 weeks to six. Elizalde and the board will look into re-expanding in months to come. The festival picks up again Aug. 13.