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An Evening In With…Garam Cho

Hastings International Piano presents a series of online short concerts.


7pm, Friday, June 26th, 2020
Facebook Live Stream

In these times when the livelihood of our musicians is at risk, we are launching this series to support the careers of our prizewinners and will be paying them a performance fee.

The concerts are free to view, but viewers will be able to make a voluntary donation to Hastings International Piano Engagement Fund, HERE or choose to join as a Friend HERE.

Join us on Friday 26th June for An Evening In With… the 2015 Hastings International Piano Concerto Competition prizewinner Garam Cho.

Programme:

G.Gershwin / Earl Wild – Etude No.4 ‘Embraceable you’
F.Liszt – Sonetto 104 Del Petrarca
F.Chopin- Ballade No.4 in F Minor Op.52

Watch on our FACEBOOK page or on our WEBSITE.

ABOUT GARAM

Pianist Garam Cho is one of South Korea’s most thrilling young classical stars. Born in Seoul, she began playing piano at the age of three, and later enrolled at the prestigious Sunhwa Arts School. She studied from 2004 to 2008 at the Seoul National University, the best university in Korea. She furthered her studies in Germany, earning her master of arts in piano and “Konzertexamen” (highest distinction) from Berlin’s Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler under the tutelage of Prof. Gabriele Kupfernagel, who had studied with Russian pianist Tatiana Nikolayeva.

In 2012 she received a DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst) Prize, and in 2014 received the Elsa-Neuman-Stipendium (scholarship) des Landes Berlin and Prize of Berlin. She won the 2013 Delia Steinberg International Piano Competition in Spain, in 2015 she won Second Prize in the Hastings International Piano Concerto Competition in England and the Berliner International Piano Competition in Germany and in 2017 she won the Windsor International Piano Competition in UK.

As a recitalist and soloist, Garam Cho performed in Berlin, Seoul, London, Hastings, Thessaloniki, Madrid, Barcelona, Milan and Glasgow.

In 2015 under the baton of Brian Wright, Garam Cho performed Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No.1 as a soloist with the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra in Hastings. She also appeared as a concerto soloist with the Dessau Philharmonic Orchestra at the ‘Classic Open Air Festival’ in Berlin, which has a 25 year history.

Garam performed Grieg Piano Concerto with Debut Orchestra at Seoul Art Center Concert Hall, the biggest hall in Korea. In 2017 she had a great success with the Prokofiev Piano Concerto No.2 with the Konzerthaus Orchestra led by Nodoka Okisawa, sponsored by Kultur Radio in Germany.

From 2011 to now she has had over 30 concerts with the Korea W Philharmonic Orchestra led by Namyoon Kim, including sold out Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No.1 concert in 2019.

In 2020 her Saint-Saens Piano Concerto No.5‘ Egpyt’ at Seoul Art Center Concert Hall was broadcasted live on Arte TV in Korea.

Garam Cho taught at Hochschule fuer Musik “Hanns Eisler” Berlin after graduating “Konzertexamen” in 2016-2017. In spring 2018,  she began teaching at ‘Hasei’ University and ‘Sejong’ University in Korea. She is also active as a music columnist, her “Pianist Garam Cho’s Classic Essay” published a series of colum in a “Contemporary Music Newspaper”.