Seong-Jin Cho
Seong-Jin Cho 조성진 | |
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.png) Cho in 2016 | |
| Background information | |
| Born | 28 May 1994 Seoul, South Korea |
| Genres | Classical |
| Occupation(s) | Musician |
| Instrument | Piano |
| Years active | 2006–present |
| Labels | Deutsche Grammophon |
| Website | seongjin-cho |
| Korean name | |
| Hangul | 조성진 |
| Hanja | 趙成珍 |
| Revised Romanization | Jo Seongjin |
| McCune–Reischauer | Cho Sŏngjin |
Seong-Jin Cho (Korean: 조성진; 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 pianist from his country to do so.[2][3]
Early life and education
[edit]Cho was born in Seoul, South Korea where he began playing the piano at the age of six, and gave his first public recital when he was eleven years old.[4] He graduated from the Yewon School, a private middle school for art education, and attended Seoul Arts High School before moving to France in 2012.[5] He was taught by Prof. Park Sook-ryeon and Prof. Shin Soo-jung in Korea and studied at the Conservatoire de Paris as a student of Michel Béroff.[3]
Career
[edit]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.[6] In recent years, he has toured countries such as Japan, Germany, France, Russia, Poland, Israel, China and the USA.[7]
An active recitalist, Cho performs in the world's most prestigious concert halls, including the Stern Auditorium of Carnegie Hall, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Los Angeles's Walt Disney Concert Hall, Prinzregententheater München, Wiener Konzerthaus, Musikverein, Suntory Hall Tokyo, Wigmore Hall in London, and the Berliner Philharmonie. He has also been invited to numerous music festivals such as the Verbier Festival, Menuhin Festival Gstaad, the Rheingau Musik Festival,[8] BBC Proms, Tanglewood Festival, and the Salzburg Festival, inter alia.
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.[9]
Discography
[edit]| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | |||||||
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| KOR [10] |
AUS Classical [11] |
BEL (Vl) Classical [12] |
FRA Classical [13] |
JPN [14] |
UK Classical Specialist [15] |
US Classical [16] |
US Heatseekers [17] | ||
| 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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| The Handel Project: Suites & Brahms-Variations |
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| "—" denotes album did not chart or was not released in that region. | |||||||||
Awards
[edit]- 2008: International Fryderyk Chopin Competition for Young Pianists – First Prize[18]
- 2009: Hamamatsu International Piano Competition – First Prize[19]
- 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]
- 2023: Samsung Ho-Am Prize in the Arts[20]
References
[edit]- ^ "新피아노의 시인, 조성진" [Sung-jin Cho, the new piano poet]. Yeoseong JoongAng (in Korean). 15 December 2012. Retrieved 24 September 2018.
- ^ a b Park, Bo-ram (3 September 2018). "Deutsche Grammophon celebrates 120th anniv. with gala with Cho Seong-jin in Seoul". Yonhap News Agency. Retrieved 24 September 2018.
- ^ a b c d Chin, Simon (14 July 2017). "Winning a renowned piano competition put Seong-Jin Cho on road to stardom". Washington Post. Retrieved 24 September 2018.
- ^ "Seong-Jin Cho: Beyond Chopin". my/maSCENA. 26 May 2023. Retrieved 21 August 2023.
- ^ Yu-jin, Lee (December 2015). "쇼팽 콩쿠르 한국인 첫 우승, 조성진을 말하다" [Sung-jin Cho, the first Korean to win the Chopin Competition]. Lady Kyunghyang Magazine. Retrieved 24 September 2018.
- ^ "Seong-Jin Cho – Biography". Deutsche Grammophon. Retrieved 26 December 2021.
- ^ "Seong-Jin Cho". Medici.tv. Retrieved 26 December 2021.
- ^ "NJPAC Presents Seong-Jin Cho On March 6th". New Jersey Stage. 29 September 2021. Retrieved 26 December 2021.
- ^ "Pianist Cho Seong-jin to play with Simon Rattle and Berliner Philharmoniker". The Korea Herald. 15 October 2017. Retrieved 26 December 2021.
- ^ "Gaon Album Chart". Gaon Music Chart (in Korean). Retrieved 24 September 2018.
- "Seong-Jin Cho charting".
- "Chopin: Piano Concerto No.1 charting".
- "Debussy charting".
- "Beethoven: Piano Concerto & Symphony No.5 charting".
- "Mozart charting".
- "Circle Album Chart – Week 30, 2023". Circle Chart (in Korean). Retrieved 10 August 2023.
- ^ "ARIA Core Classical Albums Chart" (PDF). ARIA Charts. Retrieved 14 May 2019.
- ^ "Seong-Jin Cho — Winner Of The 17th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition Warsaw 2015". Ultratop (in Dutch). Retrieved 14 May 2019.
- ^ "Top Albums Classique". Syndicat national de l'édition phonographique (in French). Retrieved 24 September 2018.
- ^ "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 14 May 2019.
- ^ "Official Classical Artist Albums Chart Top 50". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 24 September 2018.
- ^ "Classical Albums". Billboard. Retrieved 24 September 2018.
- ^ "Seong-Jin Cho Chart History (Heatseekers Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved 14 May 2019.
- ^ "Pianist Cho Seong-jin hopes to expand repertoire beyond Chopin". Yonhap News Agency. 21 February 2018. Retrieved 24 September 2018.
- ^ Hyo-won, Lee (23 November 2009). "15-Year-Old Becomes 1st Asian Winner of Hamamatsu Contest". The Korea Times. Retrieved 29 October 2016.
- ^ Ye-eun, Jie (5 April 2023). "Ho-Am Foundation picks prize winners". The Korea Herald. Retrieved 21 August 2023.
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