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Biography
Seong-Jin Cho (Korean: 조성진; born 28 May 1994) is a South Korean pianist.
In 2015 he won the XVII International Chopin Piano Competition. He has won the International Fryderyk Chopin Competition for Young Pianists (2008) and a piano competition in Hamamatsu, Japan (2009), as well as Third Prize in the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Russia (2011) and the Arthur Rubinstein 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 outstanding violinist Kyung Wha Chung.
Personal life
He was born on May 28, 1994, in Seoul. He graduated Yewon School and Seoul Arts High School in Korea. Currently he is a student of Michel Beroff at the Paris Conservatoire.
Awards
- 2008 - International Fryderyk Chopin Competition for Young Pianists - First prize
- 2009 - Hamamatsu International Piano Competition - First prize
- 2011 - International Tchaikovsky Competition (piano) - Bronze medalist (Third Prize)
- 2014 - Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition - Third Prize
- 2015 - XVII International Chopin Piano Competition - First prize