Seong-Jin Cho
Seong-Jin Cho was born in Seoul, South Korea on May 28th, 1994 and is the South Korean Classical Pianist. At the age of 29, Seong-Jin Cho biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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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. In recent years, he has toured countries such as Japan, Germany, France, Russia, Poland, Israel, China and the USA.
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.
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.
- 2008: International Fryderyk Chopin Competition for Young Pianists - First Prize
- 2009: Hamamatsu International Piano Competition - First Prize
- 2011: International Tchaikovsky Competition (piano) - Third Prize
- 2014: Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition - Third Prize
- 2015: XVII International Chopin Piano Competition - First Prize