Biography

Born in 1994 in Seoul, Seong-Jin Cho started learning the piano at 6 and gave his first public recital at age 11. In 2009, he became the youngest-ever winner of Japan’s Hamamatsu International Piano Competition. In 2011, he won Third Prize at the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow at the age of 17. In 2012, he moved to Paris to study with Michel Béroff at the Paris Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique from which he graduated in 2015. He is now based in Berlin.

Seong-Jin Cho was brought to the world’s attention in 2015 when he won the First Prize at the Chopin International Competition in Warsaw. This same competition launched the careers of world-class artists such as ‎Martha Argerich,‎ Maurizio Pollini, or‎ Krystian Zimerman.

Source: www.seongjin-cho.com

Recent and upcoming orchestral appearances include performances with the Berlin Philharmonic and Simon Rattle, Gewandhaus Orchester and Antonio Pappano, London Philharmonic with Robin Ticciati, New York Philharmonic and Jaap van Zweden on tour, Philadelphia Orchestra and Yannick-Nézet-Seguin on tour, Los Angeles Philharmonic with Gustavo Dudamel, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra with Mariss Jansons, Mahler Chamber Orchestra with Jakub Hrusa, Hong Kong Philharmonic with Jaap van Zweden, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra with Manfred Honeck, Boston Symphony Orchestra with Hannu Lintu, London Symphony Orchestra with Gianandrea Noseda, Staatskapelle Dresden with Myung-Whun Chung, Finnish Radio Orchestra with Hannu Lintu.

An active recitalist, he performs in many of the world’s most prestigious concert halls such as the main stage of Carnegie Hall as part of the Keyboard Virtuoso series, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw in the Master Pianists series, Berlin Philharmonie Kammermusiksaal (Berliner Philharmoniker concert series), Konzerthaus Vienna, main hall of Frankfurt’s Alte Oper, Laeiszhalle Hamburg, Tonhalle Düsseldorf, Helsinki’s Musikkitalo, Suntory Hall, Walt Disney Hall Los Angeles, Munich’s Prinzregententheater, Liederhalle Stuttgart, Washington’s Kennedy Center, La Roque d’Anthéron Festival, Verbier Festival, Gstaad Menuhin Festival, Rheingau Festival among several other venues.