Seong-Jin Cho
Seong-Jin Cho | |
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| Background information | |
| Born | May 28, 1994 Seoul, South Korea |
| Instrument | Piano |
| Labels | Deutsche Grammophon |
| Korean name | |
| Hangul | 조성진 |
| Hanja | 趙成珍 |
| Revised Romanization | Jo Seongjin |
| McCune–Reischauer | Cho Sŏngjin |
Cho Seong-jin (Template:Lang-ko; 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]
Early life and education
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]
Career
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).
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]
Discography
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | |||||||
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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. | |||||||||
Awards
- 2008: International Fryderyk Chopin Competition for Young Pianists - First Prize[17]
- 2009: Hamamatsu International Piano Competition - First Prize[18]
- 2011: International Tchaikovsky Competition (piano) - Third Prize[3]
- 2014: Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition - Third Prize[3]
- 2015: XVII International Chopin Piano Competition - First Prize[2]
References
- ^ "新피아노의 시인, 조성진". Yeoseong JoongAng (in Korean). 2012-12-15. Retrieved 2018-09-24.
- ^ a b Park, Bo-ram (2018-09-03). "Deutsche Grammophon celebrates 120th anniv. with gala with Cho Seong-jin in Seoul". Yonhap News Agency. Retrieved 2018-09-24.
- ^ a b c d e Chin, Simon (2017-07-14). "Winning a renowned piano competition put Seong-Jin Cho on road to stardom". Washington Post. Retrieved 2018-09-24.
- ^ Lee, Yu-jin (December 2015). "쇼팽 콩쿠르 한국인 첫 우승, 조성진을 말하다". Lady Kyunghyang Magazine. Retrieved 2018-09-24.
- ^ "Seong-Jin Cho - Biography". Deutsche Grammophon. Retrieved 2021-12-26.
- ^ "Seong-Jin Cho". Medici.tv. Retrieved 2021-12-26.
- ^ "NJPAC Presents Seong-Jin Cho On March 6th". New Jersey Stage. Retrieved 2021-12-26.
- ^ "Pianist Cho Seong-jin to play with Simon Rattle and Berliner Philharmoniker". The Korea Herald. Retrieved 2021-12-26.
- ^ "Gaon Album Chart". Gaon Music Chart (in Korean). Retrieved 2018-09-24.
- ^ "ARIA Core Classical Albums Chart" (PDF). ARIA Charts. Retrieved May 14, 2019.
- ^ "Seong-Jin Cho — Winner Of The 17th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition Warsaw 2015". Ultratop (in Dutch). Retrieved May 14, 2019.
- ^ "Top Albums Classique". Syndicat national de l'édition phonographique (in French). Retrieved 2018-09-24.
- ^ "チョ・ソンジン 感動のショパン・コンクール・ライヴ2015". Oricon (in Japanese). Retrieved May 14, 2019.
- ^ "Official Classical Artist Albums Chart Top 50". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 2018-09-24.
- ^ "Classical Albums". Billboard. Retrieved 2018-09-24.
- ^ "Seong-Jin Cho Chart History (Heatseekers Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved May 14, 2019.
- ^ "Pianist Cho Seong-jin hopes to expand repertoire beyond Chopin". Yonhap News Agency. 2018-02-21. Retrieved 2018-09-24.
- ^ Lee, Hyo-won (2009-11-23). "15-Year-Old Becomes 1st Asian Winner of Hamamatsu Contest". The Korea Times. Retrieved 2016-10-29.
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