For classical music fans in Korea, 2023 is set to be a thrilling year as a legion of prominent musicians and orchestras are scheduled to perform here. The Staatskapelle Dresden, one of the world s oldest orchestras, founded in 1548, will take the stage in Seoul this March.
LG Arts Center Seoul, an art theater managed by Korea s fourth-largest conglomerate, LG Group, celebrated its relocation on Thursday with the performance of award-winning Korean pianist Cho Seong-jin and the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO), helmed by British conductor Simon Rattle.
Cho Seong-jin named world s most popular pianist
Posted : 2021-03-01 15:12
Updated : 2021-03-02 10:39 Pianist Cho Seong-jin performs at the digital 2021 Mozart Week held in Salzburg, Austria, on Jan. 27 / Universal Music
By Park Ji-won
Korean pianist Cho Seong-jin was voted the world s most popular pianist, according to a poll by a London-based music website, Monday.
The uDiscoverMusic.com music portal, operated by Universal Music Group, announced that Cho was ranked No. 4 out of the top 25 classical musicians in the world in the first poll of its kind called the uDiscover Classical 100 to determine the world s favorite classical musicians. Cho ranked the highest among pianists. The poll was conducted with 11,000 participants from around the world between November and January.