LIVE AT THE MEYERHOFF Seong-Jin Cho in Recital
JOSEPH MEYERHOFF SYMPHONY HALL
Monday, April 6, 2026 7:30 pm
Seong-Jin Cho, piano
Johann Sebastian Bach Arnold Schoenberg Robert Schumann INTERMISSION
Frédéric Chopin
Partita No. 1 in B-flat Major Suite for Piano
Faschingsschwank aus Wien“ Carnival Scenes from Vienna”
14 Waltzes
This performance is approximately 2 hours and includes a 20-minute intermission.
Please note that the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra does not appear on this program.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Seong-Jin Cho
Seong-Jin Cho
Seong-Jin Cho has established himself worldwide as one of the leading pianists of his generation and most distinctive
Christoph Köstlin artists on the current music scene. With innate musicality and consummate artistry, his thoughtful and poetic, virtuosic, and colorful playing combines panache with purity, driven by an impressive natural sense of balance. He is celebrated unanimously across the globe for his expressive magic and illuminative insights.
Cho was brought to the world’ s attention in 2015 when he won First Prize at the Chopin International Competition in Warsaw, and his career has rapidly ascended since. In early 2016, he signed an exclusive contract with Deutsche Grammophon and, in 2023, Cho was awarded the prestigious Samsung Ho- Am Prize in the Arts in recognition of his exceptional contributions to the world of classical music. Cho works with the world’ s most prestigious orchestras including Berliner Philharmoniker, Wiener Philharmoniker, London Symphony Orchestra, Concertgebouworkest, and Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductors he regularly collaborates with include Myung-Whun Chung, Gustavo Dudamel, Andris Nelsons, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, among others. In the 2024 – 25 season, Cho held the position of Artist in Residence with the Berliner Philharmoniker.
In the 2025 – 26 season, Seong- Jin Cho is the London Symphony Orchestra’ s Artist Portrait. The position sees him work with the orchestra on multiple projects across the season, with concerto performances, including the world premiere of a new Piano Concerto by Donghoon Shin, written especially for him. The position also features touring performances across Europe, as well as chamber music concerts, and embarks on several international tours.
Cho’ s latest recording for Deutsche Grammophon celebrates Ravel’ s 150th anniversary presenting the composer’ s complete Solo Piano Works and Concerti, together with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Andris Nelsons. The project marks Cho’ s first immersion into a single composer’ s complete works, and the solo piano works were recognized with an Opus Klassik Award in the 2025‘ Instrumentalist of the Year’ category. All albums have been released on the Yellow Label and have garnered impressive critical acclaim worldwide.
Born in 1994 in Seoul, Seong-Jin Cho started learning the piano at the age of six and gave his first public recital aged 11. In 2009, he became the youngestever winner of Japan’ s Hamamatsu International Piano Competition. From 2012 – 2015 he studied with Michel Béroff at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris. Cho is now based in Berlin.
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