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Sung-Soo Cho – Biography Korean pianist Sung-Soo Cho continues to captivate audiences with profound interpretations of musical depth. Praised for his technique and command at the piano, his wide musical perception has drawn critical acclaim. Awarded “Best American Contemporary Performance” at the Cincinnati World Piano Competition and “Best Performance of the Commissioned Work” at the Texas State International Piano Competition, he especially enjoys broadening his passion for contemporary music. One of his new projects includes a CD "Minimum | Maximum | Modern Piano Music by American Composers" which will be released in March 2016 by Albany Records. Mr. Cho has been a worldwide prizewinner in numerous competitions including the International Piano Competition "Delia Steinberg" in Madrid, Spain, the Suri Music Concours, the JoongAng Music Concours in Korea, the Bradshaw & Buono International Piano Competition, the 5 Towns Music and Art Foundation Young Musician Competition in New York, New York International Music Concours, Glasgow International Competition for Young Pianists, The United States Virtuoso International Piano Competition, Texas State International Piano Competition, and the Cincinnati World Piano Competition. Mr. Cho has appeared as a soloist throughout the world, including appearances with the Prime Philharmonic of Korea, the Festival Chamber Orchestra of Lublin Philharmonic, The Ashdod Symphony Orchestra, and The Round Rock Symphony. His performance highlights include solo performances in various venues throughout Korea, the United States and Europe. He has performed at the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Yamaha Artist Service Seoul, and the Kumho Art Hall. He is also a pianist at Lake George Music Festival, a strong supporter of contemporary classical music. He has premiered many new works by leading contemporary composers at this vibrant festival. Mr. Cho started his musical studies at the age of five in Seoul, South Korea and graduated from Yewon Arts Middle School, Seoul Arts High School, Seoul National University, and Manhattan School of Music. His former teachers include Phillip Kawin and Hyoung-Joon Chang. Currently, he is pursuing a Doctor

Sung-Soo Cho – Biography of Musical Arts degree at Cleveland Institute of Music under the tutelage of Antonio Pompa-Baldi. He serves as an adjunct faculty in piano and a collaborative pianist in residence at Notre Dame College. He also works as a music apprentice and performer through Cleveland Institute of Music Distance Learning Center to reach even further with his teaching.

Sung-Soo Cho – Press

Sung-Soo Cho in Review SUNG-SOO CHO, PIANO WEILL RECITAL HALL AT CARNEGIE HALL, NEW YORK, NY NOVEMBER 27, 2015 If only people flocked to recitals the way they throng the retail outlets on “Black Friday,” they would have been treated to an exceptional young artist of great promise. Sung-Soo Cho looks all of age twelve, but he is probably double that, considering that he is pursuing a doctorate and also teaching at the college level. The entire recital was extremely well-prepared and played, with abundant mechanical gifts fully displayed in a wide-ranging program (Haydn to 21st century). But technique wasn’t the whole story: Mr. Cho manages to phrase very musically, and definitely has an “ear” for refined piano color and a wide tonal palette. I could only have wished that some of the program had been a bit less controlled, that he had conjured up the sense that he was communing with the instrument and the music more spontaneously—a place he did arrive by the end of the program. Mr. Cho’s specialty, according to his bio, is contemporary American piano music. Indeed, the finest performance of the evening was his mesmerizing rendition of John Corigliano’s Fantasia on an Ostinato, which refers, through layers of texture, to the Allegretto movement from Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony. In this work, which Mr. Cho made sound much better than it really is, his coloration and sense of organization and drama were superb. The work is indebted to the “minimalist” movement for much of its gesture, but it is a language that Corigliano speaks somewhat “maximally.” Here Mr. Cho was in perfect union with the composition and the piano. Mr. Cho also brought a beautiful sense of “space” to the Distance of the Moon (a New York premiere) by Michael Ippolito (a student of Corigliano). Haydn’s Sonata in B Minor, Hob. XVI: 32, which began the recital, was played with great flair and crisp articulation, though in a work so compact I missed the

Sung-Soo Cho – Press repetitions of the expositions (and possibly even the recaps) in the first and third movements. Let us not treat Haydn as a mere appetizer. Mr. Cho showed a marked sensitivity to the subtlety of so-called Impressionist French repertoire, playing three Debussy Préludes from Book II with perfect sonority. Les fées sont d’exquises danseuses, in particular, featured “exquisite dancing” of nimble, delicate fingers over the keys. Before intermission, Mr. Cho barnstormed his way through Liszt’s concert “paraphrase” of Verdi’s Rigoletto. He managed its fierce business with great musicality, perhaps the only thing missing would have been a slightly “grander” air about the whole—surely that will come as he matures.

The final work on the program was Brahms’ compendium of pianistic difficulties: the Paganini Variations, Op. 35, played in its entirety. Here I really felt that Mr. Cho let go and showed us more of himself. He varied the voicing and color of each repeat wonderfully, and at the same time managed to make the piece sound “easy.” All in all, a successful debut. Mr. Cho favored the audience with a fun encore: A Gliss Is Just a Gliss by David Rakowski. by Frank Daykin for New York Concert Review; New York, NY DECEMBER 2, 2015

Sung-Soo Cho – Repertoire

Solo J.S.Bach The Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1 – Prelude and Fugue No.9 in E major, BWV 854 The Well-Tempered Clavier Book 2 – Prelude and Fugue No.16 in G minor, BWV 885 Partita No.1 in B flat major, BWV 825 Toccata in C minor, BWV 911 Fantasy and Fugue in A minor, BWV 904 Prelude in B minor (transcription by A.Siloti) D.Scarlatti Sonata in D major, L.14/K.492 Sonata in E major, L.23/K.380 F.Haydn Sonata in B minor, Hob.XVI:32 Variations in F minor, Hob.XVII:6 W.A.Mozart 12 Variations on an Allegretto in B flat major, K.500 Sonata in F major, K.533 L.v.Beethoven Sonata No.3 in C major, Op.2-3 Sonata No.18 in E flat major, Op.31-3 Sonata No.22 in F major, Op.54 Sonata No.32 in C minor, Op.111 F.Schubert Sonata in C minor, D.958 F.Mendelssohn Variations Sérieuses, Op.54 F.Chopin Sonata No.2 in B flat minor, Op.35 Polonaise in F sharp minor, Op.44 Twelve Etudes, Op.25 Variations Brillantes in B flat major, Op.12

Sung-Soo Cho – Repertoire Nocturne Op.27 No.1 Berceuse, Op.57 R.Schumann Carnaval, Op.9 F.Liszt Etude d'execution transcendante No.4 Mazeppa Concert Paraphrase of Rigoletto Concert Paraphrase of Ernani Reminiscences de Don Juan Annees de Pelerinage(2e Annee)-Apres une lecture du Dante Spanish Rhapsody J.Brahms Variations on a Theme by Paganini, Op.35 (Books 1 and 2) Drei Intermezzi, Op.117 M.Mussorgsky Pictures at the Exhibition C.Debussy Etude No.6 Pour les huit doigts Prelude Book I - No.5 Les Collines d'Anacapri, No.7 Ce qu'a vu le vent d'ouest Preludes Book II – No.3 La puerta del Vino, No.4 ≪Les fées sont d'exquises danseuses≫, No.8 Ondine E.Granados Los Requiebros from Goyescas, Op.11 L.Godowsky Studies on Chopin's Etudes Nos.22 and 47 A.Scriabin Etude Op.8 No.2 S.Rachmaninoff Etude-tableau Op.39 No.3 M.Ravel Toccata from La tombeau de Couperin I.Stravinsky The Firebird (transcription by G.Agosti) F.Martin Preludes Nos. 3, 4, 8

Sung-Soo Cho – Repertoire S.Prokofiev Sonata No.7 in B flat major, Op.83 E.Carter Caténaires (2006) I.Yun Fünf Stücke (1958) G.Ligeti Etudes No.5 Arc-en-ciel (1985), No.6 Automne à Varsovie (1985), No.10 Der Zauberlehrling (1994) N.Gabunia Improvisation and Toccata (1962) J.Corigliano Fantasia on an Ostinato (1985) J.Adams China Gates (1977) A.Nishimura Daydream (2009) W.Blank Lightnings (2014) D.Rakowski Etudes No.21 Twelve-Step Program (1999), No. 30 A Gliss is Just a Gliss (2000) L.Liebermann Nocturne No.7 (1999) M.Ippolito The Distance of the Moon (2015) Concerto W.A.Mozart Concerto No.9 in E flat major, K.271 Concerto No.12 in A major, K.414 Concerto No.20 in D minor, K.466

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L.v.Beethoven Concerto No.1 in C major, Op.15 Concerto No.3 in C minor, Op. 37 Concerto No.5 in E flat major, Op.73 R.Schumann Concerto in A minor, Op.54 S.Rachmaninoff Concerto No.3 in D minor, Op.30 M.Ravel Concerto for the Left Hand in D major S.Prokofiev Concerto No.3 in C major, Op.26 Chamber W.A.Mozart Sonata for Two Pianos in D major, K.448 L.v.Beethoven Sonata for Violin and Piano No.5 in F major, Op.24 Sonata for Cello and Piano No.2 in G minor, Op.5 No.2 Piano Trio in E flat major, Op.70 No.2 F.Schubert Auf dem Strom for Voice, Piano, and Horn, Op.119, D.943 F.Chopin Sonata for Cello and Piano in G minor, Op. 65 C.Frank Sonata for Violin and Piano in A major A.Dvořák Piano Trio “Dumky”, Op.90 Piano Quintet in A major, Op. 81 A.Arensky Piano Trio in D minor, Op.32 S.Rachmaninoff Suite for Two Pianos No.2, Op.17

Sung-Soo Cho – Repertoire R.Glière Pieces, Op.35: No.6 Romance, No.10 Nocturne, and No.11 Intermezzo (for Horn and Piano) J.Françaix Divertimento for Horn and Piano W.Lutoslawki Variations on a Theme by Paganini for Two Pianos A.Piazzolla Four Seasons (arrangement for piano trio) S.Reich Piano Phase (1977)

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S. Rachmaninoff Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30 1st movement

https://youtu.be/RLB_550vERU J.S. Bach Toccata in C minor, BWV 911 https://youtu.be/LAEwiPoDycM L.v. Beethoven Sonata in F major, Op. 54 https://youtu.be/-7vJAXofUXY F. Liszt Spanish Rhapsody https://youtu.be/dbtqurDF-MQ E. Granados Los Requiebros from Goyescas, Op. 11 https://youtu.be/s4aheG73Eek G. Ligeti Étude No. 6 Automne à Varsovie https://youtu.be/K9wPzaoZJE4 C. Debussy Preludes Book 2: Nos. 3, 4, and 8, Book 1: Nos. 7 and 5 https://youtu.be/6avStYALYgU I. Stravinsky-G. Agosti The Firebird https://youtu.be/fPW9_qF3KZM J. Brahms Variations on a theme by Paganini, Op. 35 https://youtu.be/PEwGhZOrYAo

2014 Cincinnati World Piano Competition Semifinals

https://youtu.be/F3_YvjE2QUs J. Haydn Sonata in B minor, Hob.XVI:32 https://youtu.be/Vu0sQleZKpc

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F. Liszt Concert Paraphrase on Rigoletto https://youtu.be/0RAOzzWXwUE

S. Prokofiev Concerto No. 3 in C major, Op. 26 3rd movement https://youtu.be/Esqhze0jkYY Richard Goode Master Class: Debussy “Les collines d’Anacapri” from Préludes, Book I https://youtu.be/OXBGJ_ErhGI Artist Website: http:// www.sungsoocho.com

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