Soo Yeon Cho, Piano

A native of Korea, Soo Yeon Cho has been performing actively in both solo and chamber music world wide. Ms. Cho was a honorary graduate from the Peabody Conservatory. During her years at Peabody, She was the winner of many competitions and given opportunities to perform at various venues at the institution and other venues in the Washington D.C region. Recently, she won the Concerto Competition and performed Beehoven Piano Concerto No. 3, celebrating the grand opening of the Miriam A. Friedberg Concert Hall. Upon her graduation with many scholarships and prizes, she was the fourth prize winner in the Missouri Southern International Piano Competition and first prize winner in the two-piano ensemble category in the New York Piano Competition. This year, she won 3rd prize in Kingsville Young Performers Competition in Texas. Ms. Cho has a wide range of violin-piano repertoire and performs with numerous well-known violinists in the US.

Ms. Cho has participated in the Aspen Music Festival and Banff Piano Masterclass, where she studied with Yoheved Kaplinsky, Ann Schien, Marc Durand, Julian Martin, and Angela Chang.

After finishing her Bachelor of Arts, she's completed her Masters degree at The Juilliard School under the direction of Robert McDonald.

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