Person Open DS/UK/22008 Seong-Jin; Cho (28 May 1994); South Korean pianist Seong-Jin Cho 28 May 1994 South Korean pianist Male

Seong-Jin Cho is a South Korean pianist. In 2015 Cho won the XVII International Chopin Piano Competition, the first South Korean to win. He also has won the International Fryderyk Chopin Competition for Young Pianists (2008), the Hamamatsu International Piano Competition (2009), and Third Prizes in the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Russia (2011) and the Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition in Tel Aviv (2014). He has performed in concert with the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra (cond. Valery Gergiev), the French Radio, Czech, Seoul (all with Myung-whun Chung), Munich (cond. Lorin Maazel) and Ural (cond. Dmitry Liss) philharmonic orchestras, Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra (East Berlin) (cond. Marek Janowski), Russian National Orchestra (cond. Mikhail Pletnev) and Basel Symphony Orchestra (cond. Pletnev). He has toured Japan, Germany, France, Russia, Poland, Israel, China and the US. He has appeared at the Tokyo Opera, in Osaka, at the Moscow Conservatory and at the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg, including with recitals. He has participated in numerous European festivals, including in St Petersburg, Moscow, Duszniki-Zdrój and Cracow, as well as festivals in New York and Castleton. As a chamber musician, he has been invited to work with the violinist Kyung Wha Chung. In 2017 he gave his debut with the Berliner Philharmoniker under Sir Simon Rattle replacing Lang Lang during parts of the Asia tour of the orchestra. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seong-Jin_Cho (July 2018) International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition - ICA 2004 ISBN 2-9521932-2-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 Yes RAHAKirkbride 7/18/2018 Rachael.Fragola 3/1/2022 cc2b41c8-5755-4c8d-a2cf-d839114a82c6