Born in 1994 in Seoul, the pianist Seong-Jin Cho studied from 2012 to 2015 with Michel Béroff at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse in Paris. In 2009 he became the youngest winner of the Hamamatsu International Piano Competition in Japan, in 2011 he won the third prize at the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, and in 2015 he won the first prize at the International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw.
He has worked with renowned orchestras such as the Berlin Philharmonic, the Vienna Philharmonic, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre de Paris, the New York Philharmonic and the Philadelphia Orchestra, and with conductors including Myung-Whun Chung, Gustavo Dudamel, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Andris Nelsons, Gianandrea Noseda, Simon Rattle, Santtu-Matias Rouvali and Esa-Pekka Salonen.
Highlights of the 2022/23 season included his returns to the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra under Gustavo Dudamel, to the New York Philharmonic, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Munich Philharmonic, and to the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Andris Nelsons, along with the world premiere of Thierry Escaich’s new piano concerto with the Czech Philharmonic under Semyon Bychkov.
Seong-Jin Cho has performed at numerous prestigious concert halls and festivals worldwide, among them the Carnegie Hall, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, the Berlin Philharmonie, the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Prinzregententheater in Munich, the Suntory Hall in Tokyo, the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, the Festival International de Piano de la Roque d’Anthéron and the Verbier Festival. Plans for the forthcoming season include recitals at Carnegie Hall, in the Celebrity Series of Boston and at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Alte Oper Frankfurt, the Liederhalle in Stuttgart, the Hamburg Laeiszhalle, the Berlin Philharmonie and the Vienna Musikverein, along with his debut at the Barbican Centre in London.
In January 2016 Seong-Jin Cho became an exclusive artist with Deutsche Grammophon. Recently in 2022 he released the album Musical Moments, featuring works by Brahms, and, in February 2023, The Handel Project.
