He is the only young Chinese horn player active in New York. He began to learn piano at the age of 3 and horn at the age of 9. He studied under his father Professor Zhang Chengxin of the Central Conservatory of music. He was admitted to the high school attached to the Central Conservatory of music in 2000. In 2004, he won a full scholarship from Edward High School of music and art in California to study in the United States. In 2010, he was awarded a full scholarship for master of horn in Yale Conservatory of music. In 2012, he was awarded the highest full scholarship of the school of music of Rutgers University to pursue his doctorate in horn music art.

In 2004, Mimi Chang received a full scholarship from Edwards High School of music and art in California to study in the United States. In 2005, she participated in the spotlight young artist competition competition in Los Angeles, winning the first bronze championship in the history of the competition, and held a solo concert for the winners at the Los Angeles Music Center. Her personal interview with the media on that day was published in the Los Angeles Times and its magazine.

In 2006, Mimi Chang won a full scholarship from Manhattan Conservatory of music in New York with her first professional achievement. She studied under Erik ralske   who is the horn chief of the Metropolitan Opera House and the former deputy chief horn of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. She won the bronze tube championship in the concerto competition of the Manhattan Conservatory of music, and has been on the president's list "Dean's honor list" with excellent results for four consecutive years.

From 2008 to 2009, she was invited to perform with the New York Youth Symphony Orchestra in Carnegie Hall. She has also been invited to major music festivals in the United States and Europe for many times. She has toured in the United States and major European cities with a number of world-famous conductors at the famous esborne Music Festival, the Norfolk Music Festival and the aims Music Festival in Austria. Her Woodwind Quintet group at the Norfolk Festival has been invited to record several albums, and her interview was published in the new Yorker magazine. In 2010, Mimi Chang was awarded a full horn master's scholarship from Yale University School of music. After many examinations, Yale University Conservatory of music invited her to teach as an artist lecturer in many campuses in the United States. In the same year, the Yale Orchestra hired her as the chief horn and voice teacher, touring major cities in the United States and South Africa. In 2012, Mimi Zhang was awarded the highest full scholarship for her doctorate in horn music from Rutgers University School of music.

From 2014 to 2016, Mimi Zhang, together with Dr. Douglas Lundeen, a famous horn professor in the United States, and Eric ruske, a famous horn soloist in the United States, held a master lecture at the Central Conservatory of music and successfully held a horn concert. She has been invited to hold many horn symposiums, master lectures and horn concerts in Xiamen University, Fuzhou Grand Theater and Qingdao. In May 2015, she was invited to perform at the met Gala, a star studded event in New York City, with Rihanna, the American pop star. In June of the same year, she was invited to give a personal interview to New York guest room, a Chinese TV station of the United States, and received the highest attention on her TV station and website. Living in New York, she has performed with the directors of the New York Philharmonic, the Metropolitan Opera House, and the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra in Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, major music festivals and charity activities. In 2015 and 2016, as the founder and artistic director of mioma, a cultural exchange activity between China and the United States, Mimi Zhang successfully held the international brass music festival in five major cities in the east of the United States with brass professors from the Juilliard Conservatory of music, Yale University Conservatory of music, Manhattan Conservatory of music and Boston University Conservatory of music. She received her doctorate in 2016 and became the first doctor of horn music in Chinese history. She teaches at the Bergen Conservatory of music and art and works part-time with the Princeton Symphony Orchestra and the New England Symphony Orchestra.