Schubert's 1817 Sonatas Sookkyung Cho

• Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828): Piano Sonata in A Minor, Op. 164, D. 537:
• 1 Schubert: Piano Sonata in A Minor, Op. 164, D. 537: I. Allegro ma non troppo 08:01
• 2 Schubert: Piano Sonata in A Minor, Op. 164, D. 537: II. Allegretto quasi andantino 06:34
• 3 Schubert: Piano Sonata in A Minor, Op. 164, D. 537: III. Allegro vivace 04:44
• Piano Sonata in A-Flat major, D. 557:
• 4 Schubert: Piano Sonata in A-Flat major, D. 557: I. Allegro moderato 03:52
• 5 Schubert: Piano Sonata in A-Flat Major, D. 557: II. Andante 03:34
• 6 Schubert: Piano Sonata in A-Flat Major, D. 557: III. Allegro 04:55
• Piano Sonata in E Minor, D. 566:
• 7 Schubert: Piano Sonata in E Minor, D. 566: I. Moderato 06:24
• 8 Schubert: Piano Sonata in E Minor, D. 566: II. Allegretto 08:14
• 9 Schubert: Piano Sonata in E Minor, D. 566: III. Scherzo. Allegro vivace - Trio 06:07
• Piano Sonata in B Major, Op. 147, D. 575:
• 10 Schubert: Piano Sonata in B Major, Op. 147, D. 575: I. Allegro ma non troppo 07:50
• 11 Schubert: Piano Sonata in B Major, Op. 147, D. 575: II. Andante 05:01
• 12 Schubert: Piano Sonata in B Major, Op. 147, D. 575: III. Scherzo. Allegretto - Trio 05:14
• 13 Schubert: Piano Sonata in B Major, Op. 147, D. 575: IV. Allegro giusto 05:16
• Total Runtime 01:15:46

Info for Schubert's 1817 Sonatas

Schubert moved to Vienna in early 1817, which was the center of musical activities in Europe at that time. Schubert focused strongly upon composing piano sonatas, and the result was these four superb works. Korean-born pianist Sookkyung Cho brings these sonatas truly to life. Noted for her "sensitive and imaginative" (New York Concert Review) playing, Sookkyung Cho has been captivating worldwide audiences with her personal, thoughtful expressionist style. She has appeared in venues such as Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Chicago Cultural Center, Sarasota Opera House, Baltimore Museum of Art, Montreal Conservatory, Beaux concerts de la releve in Quebec, Château de Fontainebleau in France, and Zijingang Theater at Zhejiang University in China, among others, and was recently heard on Chicago's WFMT.

Sookkyung Cho, piano

Sookkyung Cho
Noted for her “sensitive and imaginative” (New York Concert Review) playing, Korean-born pianist Sookkyung Cho has been captivating worldwide audiences with her personal, thoughtful expressionist style. She has appeared in venues such as Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Chicago Cultural Center, Sarasota Opera House, Baltimore Museum of Art, Montreal Conservatory, Beaux concerts de la releve in Quebec, Château de Fontainebleau in France, and Zijingang Theater at Zhejiang University in China, among others, and was recently heard on Chicago’s WFMT.

A founding member of the New York-based Almava trio, Ms. Cho has also been featured in major music festivals including Yellow Barn, Norfolk, and Sarasota, and was a Performing Associate at Bowdoin International Music Festival in Maine. As a sought-after pedagogue, She has been invited to adjudicate competitions and conduct masterclasses, most recently at New England Conservatory Preparatory School for its Concerto Competition Finals and Walnut Hill School for the Arts for its Honors Chamber Music Auditions. She has also taught as a piano instructor for the LINKS Signature Arts Program at The Juilliard School in New York and as piano and chamber music faculty at NEC Preparatory. An emerging performer-scholar, she was selected to present a lecture-recital at College Music Society for its biennial International Conference in Korea and has also taught music theory at Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.

Ms. Cho earned her Bachelor of Music degree from Juilliard, where she was honored with John Erskine Graduation prize, and a Master of Music degree from Peabody as a full graduate assistantship recipient, where she also received Grace Clagett Ranney Prize in Chamber Music. She earned her terminal degree, Doctor of Musical Arts, from Juilliard as a C. V. Starr Doctoral Fellow, where she also taught as a teaching fellow both in Piano Minor and Literature and Materials departments. Her teachers include Boris Slutsky, Julian Martin, Matti Raekallio, and Jonathan Bass. Associate Professor of Piano at Grand Valley State University in Michigan, she has also served on faculty at InterHarmony Music Festival in Italy, ESME String Virtual Camp, and Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp in Michigan during the summer.

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