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Young-Chang Cho
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Born
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1958
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Occupations
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- Classical cellist
- Academic teacher
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Young-Chang Cho
(born 1958 in
Seoul
) is a Korean classical
cellist
teaching at the
Folkwang University of the Arts
in Germany's
Ruhr Area
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Career
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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
with
David Soyer
at the
Curtis Institute of Music
of
Philadelphia
, and later with
Laurence Lesser
at the
New England Conservatory of Music
in
Boston
. In 1980, he continued his studies in Europe with
Siegfried Palm
and
Mstislav Rostropovich
.
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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
in Munich.
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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
in 1977 and at the ARD competition in 1980.
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As a soloist, he performed with the
Washington National Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Rostropovitch and in Tokyo, Sofia and
Bologna
, 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
(1993 in memory of
Pablo Casals
, 1995 in memory of
Emanuel Feuermann
and
Jacqueline du Pre
, 1997 celebrating the 70th birthday of Rostropovitch).
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He was a juror there for the first
International Pablo Casals Cello Competition
in 2000 and the second in 2004.
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Since 1987 he has been teaching violoncello at the Folkwang Hochschule, now Folkwang University of the Arts.
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His students have included
Saerom Park
and
Graham Waterhouse
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.
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