Korean pianist Seong-jin Cho brings concert tour to Southam Hall

For someone who has come out on top at some elite international piano competitions, Seong-Jin Cho takes a pretty dim view of playing for a jury panel.
“Actually, I hate competitions,” says Cho, a 23-year-old native of Seoul, South Korea.
At 14, in 2009, he became the youngest-ever winner of Japan’s Hamamatsu International Piano Competition. In 2011, Cho, then 17, won third prize at the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. “I didn’t enjoy at all the competition, becaus