Young-Chang Cho (born 1958 in
Seoul
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) is a Korean classical
cellist teaching at the
Folkwang University of the Arts
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in Germany's
Ruhr Area
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.
Career
Young-Chang Cho was born in Seoul in 1958. He began cello lessons at the age of eight. From 1971, he studied in the
United States
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with
David Soyer at the
Curtis Institute of Music of
Philadelphia
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, and later with
Laurence Lesser at the
New England Conservatory of Music
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in
Boston
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. In 1980, he continued his studies in Europe with
Siegfried Palm
Siegfried Palm (25 April 1927 – 6 June 2005) was a German cellist who is known worldwide for his interpretations of contemporary music. Many 20th-century composers like Kagel, Ligeti, Xenakis, Penderecki and Zimmermann wrote music for ...
and
Mstislav Rostropovich.
In 1981 he won a prize at the
Concours de violoncelle Rostropovitch in Paris and was repeatedly invited to serve in its jury. He also received prizes at the International Cello Competition Pablo Casals in Budapest and at the
ARD International Music Competition
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Si ...
in Munich.
As a
chamber musician he formed the Cho Piano Trio with his sisters Young-Mi Cho (violin) and Young-Bang Cho (piano), receiving prizes at the
Geneva International Music Competition
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in 1977 and at the ARD competition in 1980.
As a soloist, he performed with the
Washington National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Rostropovitch and in Tokyo, Sofia and
Bologna
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, among others. He was invited for solo recitals and master classes to international music festivals such as Academie Internationale de Musique de Montpellier and the
Kronberg Academy
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(1993 in memory of
Pablo Casals, 1995 in memory of
Emanuel Feuermann
Emanuel Feuermann (November 22, 1902 – May 25, 1942) was an internationally celebrated cellist in the first half of the 20th century.
Life
Feuermann was born in 1902 in Kolomyja, Galicia, Austro-Hungarian Empire (now Kolomyia, Ukraine) to ...
and
Jacqueline du Pré
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Her care ...
, 1997 celebrating the 70th birthday of Rostropovitch).
He was a juror there for the first
International Pablo Casals Cello Competition in 2000 and the second in 2004.
Music & Vision
Tess Crebbin, 2004, image on p. 3
Since 1987 he has been teaching violoncello at the Folkwang Hochschule, now Folkwang University of the Arts. His students have included Saerom Park and Graham Waterhouse
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who dedicated the 2019 composition '' Variations for Cello Solo'' to him. He has taught at the Yonsei University College of Music in Seoul from 2011.
References
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South Korean classical cellists
Academic staff of Yonsei University
1958 births
Living people
People from Seoul
New England Conservatory alumni
Curtis Institute of Music alumni
Academic staff of the Folkwang University of the Arts
Prize-winners of the ARD International Music Competition