Gstaad Festival Orchestra
Jaap van Zweden, conductor
Seong-jin Cho, piano

Programme:
TBA

Pianist Seong-jin Cho, born in Seoul in 1994, rose to international fame in 2015 after winning the XVII International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw. Before that, at the age of 15, he became the youngest ever winner of the Hamamatsu International Piano Competition.  He is a graduate of the Conservatoire de Paris. In recent years he has performed as a soloist with the philharmonic orchestras of Berlin, London, New York and Los Angeles under Sir Simon Rattle, Antonio Pappano and Gustavo Dudamel, to name but a few. The Gstaad Festival Orchestra grew out of the vision to spread the innovative, inspiring spirit of the Menuhin Festival abroad and to enable this celebrated annual music festival to resonate on an international platform. Its members are musicians from the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, the Zurich Opera Orchestra, the Kammerorchester Basel, the Basel Symphony Orchestra and the Bern Symphony Orchestra. Conductor Jaap van Zweden, who has enjoyed several successful collaborations with the orchestra, is currently music director of the New York Philharmonic and the Hong Kong Philharmonic. In 2012 Musical Americanamed him conductor of the year. He is the honorary chief conductor of the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor laureate of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. In 2020 he was awarded the prestigious Concertgebouw Prize in Amsterdam.