Ji-Hyun Cho, winner of the Artists International Competition, made her New York recital debut at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in 1995. In 1997, she gave another recital presented by Artists International Competition at Merkin Concert Hall in New York. She won First Prize in the Yook-Young Competition in her native Korea, Third Prize in the IBLA International Competition and diploma in the Trani International Competition in Italy. She performed as soloist with the Korean Symphony Orchestra, the Ulsan Philharmonic Orchestra, the Seoul National University Alumni Symphony Orchestra, the Seoul Academy Ensemble, the Elim Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Swan and the Kaunas Chamber Orchestra. As a member of the chamber music ensemble Rose of Sharon Artists, she performed at the United Nations’ Concerts for World Peace, held in the Dag Hammarskjold Library Auditorium in 1996 and 1999.
As a recitalist, she has been sponsored by The Piano Music and Jeunesses Musicales in Seoul. She performed in the Young Promising Artists’ Series sponsored by the Seoul Arts Center, the Virtuoso 2001 Series presented by The Piano Music, Kumho Art Hall Friday Concert, and Bucheon Phil Chamber Music Festival among others. She has performed at Alice Tully Hall, Merkin Hall, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Korean Cultural Service in New York and gave recitals at Young-San Art Hall, Seoul Arts Center, Sejong Culture Center, Ho-am Art Hall and Kumho Art Hall in Seoul, Korea. She has been broadcast on radio, ‘KBS-FM’ and ‘TBS-FM’ in Korea. Since 2002 she has given recitals regularly as a series entitled ‘Piano Album’.
Ms. Cho, whose teachers in Korea include Mi-Sook Kim, earned the Bachelor of Music degree from Seoul National University under Professor Kye-Sook Suh. She received the Master of Music degree from The Juilliard School as a student of Oxana Yablonskaya. She was awarded the D.M.A. from Manhattan School of Music where she was a scholarship student of Constance Keene. She has taught at Brooklyn Conservatory of Music in New York. Currently, she is Professor of Piano at Dankook University in Korea. .... ....