Tony Cho

Pianist Tony Cho enjoys a multifaceted career as recitalist, chamber musician and opera and vocal coach.  He has collaborated with numerous artists at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, Zipper Concert Hall (Los Angeles), Ganz Hall (Chicago), Meany Hall (Seattle), Harris Concert Hall (Aspen) and them Honolulu Museum of Art, among many others throughout the United States and abroad.  His performances have been featured on WKCR (New York City), WVIZ (Cleveland) and WXOJ (Northampton, MA), live on KVOD (Denver), KHPR (Honolulu) and Maine Public Radio’s WMEA Tiny Screen Concert Series.  
Tony Cho has held vocal arts coaching positions at The Juilliard School, University of Southern California, and Oberlin Conservatory of Music, while summer festival faculty appointments include SongFest at the Colburn School, Hawaii Performing Arts Festival, and Taos Opera Institute.  Abroad, Cho has given classes at South Korea’s Yonsei and Sungkyul universities and the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, China.  He has been on the staffs of several opera houses, including those of Aspen, Central City, Glimmerglass, Hawaii, Long Beach, Santa Barbara, Sarasota, Tulsa and Virginia, functioning as assistant conductor, coach and repetiteur.  His orchestral work includes serving as harpsichordist and keyboardist with the Honolulu Symphony, the Cascadian Symphony (WA), and Aspen, Central City and Long Beach opera orchestras. 
A native of South Korea, Tony Cho is a graduate of Oklahoma State University, University of Cincinnati and University of Washington.