Seong-Jin Cho (Korean: 조성진; born May 28, 1994)[1] is a South Korean pianist. He rose to fame within South Korea and the international classical music world in 2015 after winning the XVII International Chopin Piano Competition, becoming the first South Korean pianist to do so.[2][3]
Seong-Jin Cho | |
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![]() Cho in 2016 | |
Background information | |
Born | (1994-05-28) May 28, 1994 (age 28) Seoul, South Korea |
Instrument(s) | Piano |
Labels | Deutsche Grammophon |
Website | seongjin-cho |
Korean name | |
Hangul | 조성진 |
Hanja | 趙成珍 |
Revised Romanization | Jo Seongjin |
McCune–Reischauer | Cho Sŏngjin |
Cho was born in Seoul, South Korea. He began playing the piano at a young age and gave his first public recital when he was twelve years old.[3] He graduated from Seoul Arts High School.[4] He was taught by Prof. Park Sook-ryeon and Professor Shin Soo-jung and studied at the Conservatoire de Paris as a student of Michel Béroff.[3]
Cho has won numerous awards including First Prize at both the International Fryderyk Chopin Competition for Young Pianists (2008) and the Hamamatsu International Piano Competition (2009). He has also received Third Prize at the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow (2011) and the Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition in Tel Aviv (2014). In 2015, Cho won First Prize in the XVII International Chopin Piano Competition.
As a soloist, Cho has performed with many major orchestras including the Berliner Philharmoniker, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Mariinsky Orchestra, NHK Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. He also regularly collaborates with eminent conductors such as Vladimir Ashkenazy, Myung-Whun Chung, Gustavo Dudamel, Valery Gergiev, Vasily Petrenko, Mikhail Pletnev, Esa-Pekka Salonen and Yuri Temirkanov.[5] In recent years, he has toured countries such as Japan, Germany, France, Russia, Poland, Israel, China and the USA.[6]
An active recitalist, Cho performs in many leading concert halls, including New York’s Carnegie Hall, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, Los Angeles’s Walt Disney Concert Hall, Munich’s Prinzregententheater, Wiener Konzerthaus, Tokyo’s Suntory Hall and the Berliner Philharmonie. He has been also been a guest artist at numerous festivals such as the Verbier Festival, Menuhin Festival Gstaad and the Rheingau Musik Festival.[7]
In 2017, Cho gave his debut with the Berliner Philharmoniker under Sir Simon Rattle replacing Lang Lang during parts of the orchestra’s Asia tour. [8]
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KOR [9] |
AUS Classical [10] |
BEL (Vl) Classical [11] |
FRA Classical [12] |
JPN [13] |
UK Classical Specialist [14] |
US Classical [15] |
US Heatseekers [16] | ||
Seong-Jin Cho (Winner of the 17th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition) |
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1 | — | 11 | No data | 253 | 18 | 11 | 18 |
Chopin: Piano Concerto No.1 |
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5 | — | — | — | 15 | 10 | — | |
Debussy |
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11 | 7 | — | 35 | — | 20 | 14 | — |
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 20 K 466 / / Sonatas K 281 & K 332 |
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12 | — | — | — | — | 20 | 14 | — |
The Wanderer |
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Mozart: Allegro in D major, K.626b/16 [World Premiere] |
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Im Abendrot (with Matthias Goerne) |
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Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2 · Scherzi |
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"—" denotes album did not chart or was not released in that region. |
Winners of the International Chopin Piano Competition | |
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National libraries | |
Other |
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