Young-Chang Cho

Young- Chang Cho (born 1958 in Seoul) is a South Korean cellist and professor at the Folkwang University in Essen.

Life

Young- Chang Cho was born in Seoul, South Korea in 1958. At age five he began piano lessons, cello lessons at age eight. At age 13, he began in the U.S. studies with David Soyer at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. Later he studied with Laurence Lesser at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston and then in Europe with Siegfried Palm and Mstislav Rostropovich.

In 1981 he was a prize winner at the Concours de cellos Rostropovich in Paris, after which he was invited several times to work there as a juror. It also won prizes at the International Pablo Casals Cello Competition in Budapest and at the International Music Competition of the ARD in Munich.

With his sisters Bang Young- Cho (violin ) and Young -Ba Cho (piano ), he formed the Cho Piano Trio, in 1977 at the Concours de Genève and 1980 at the ARD Competition won prizes.

As a soloist with orchestra, he joined among others, the Washington National Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Rostropovich on and in Tokyo, Sofia and Bologna. He played at international music festivals such as the Cello Festival Kronberg, 1993 in memory of Pablo Casals and 1995 in memory of Emanuel fire man and Jacqueline du Pré. He was there a juror at the first International Pablo Casals Cello Competition in 2000.

Since 1987, Young- Chang Cho professor at the Folkwang Hochschule ( Folkwang University of the Arts since 2010 ) in the violoncello. His students include Saerom Park and Graham Waterhouse.

Publications

• Works by and about Young- Chang Cho in the catalog that German national library