Young-Chang Cho was born in
Seoul, South Korea in 1958. He began cello lessons at the age of eight. From 1971, he studied in the
United States with
David Soyer at the
Curtis Institute of Music of
Philadelphia, and later with
Laurence Lesser at the
New England Conservatory of Music in
Boston. In 1980, he continued his studies in Europe with
Siegfried Palm and
Mstislav Rostropovich. Since 1987 he has been teaching violoncello at the Folkwang Hochschule, now Folkwang University of the Arts. His students have included
Saerom Park and
Graham Waterhouse who dedicated the 2019 composition
Variations for Cello Solo to him. He has taught at the
Yonsei University College of Music in Seoul from 2011. == References ==