November 2011 Concert

Haverhill Sinfonia Soloist

Competition Winner 2009

JOO CHO - SOPRANO

MARINO NAHON - PIANO

Programme will include works by

Mozart, Beethoven, Alban Berg, Hugo Wolf

& Richard Strauss

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Joo Cho graduated in singing at the Chung-Ang University in Seoul, and obtained her diploma in singing and a degree in vocal chamber music (I and II level) with the highest marks and praise and honourable mention at the Verdi Conservatory in Milan, under the guidance of Stelia Doz.

She has worked with Ernesto Palacio, Jaume Aragall and Demetrius Colaci. At the Opera House of Seoul she has performed leading roles in several productions. She is also active in oratorio and sacred music. She has also studied lieder, and attended master classes with Helmut Deutsch, Irwin Gage, and Dalton Baldwin.

She has given concerts of lieder in France, Switzerland and Italy. Joo Cho is also a popular interpreter of twentieth-century and contemporary music. Joo Cho has been successful in numerous competitions, including the International Singing Competition "Giulio Neri" Torrita di Siena (1st prize), and "Haverhill Sinfonia Soloist Competition in England (1st prize).

Joo Cho has also been noted for her ability to sing twentieth century and contemporary music. Her repertoire includes not only 20th century classics such as Pierrot Lunaire by Schönberg but also many world premieres such as Nel tuo silenzio by Giacomo Manzoni (Milano, 2010).

Joo Cho and Marino Nahon in concert (video - short excerpt)

Marino Nahon graduated with honours in piano at the Conservatorio "G. Verdi" in the class of Lilia Bertola. Later he studied with Peter Soraci, Michele and Peter Fedrigotti Rattalino, under the leadership of which he received his diploma in Cooperative Educational Courses Foundation "Santa Cecilia".

At the Conservatory of Milan he also has a Degree in vocal chamber music with honours, and honourable mention. He attended master classes in piano and chamber music with Paul Badura-Skoda, Bruno Canino, Dalton Baldwin, Antonio Ballista, Irwin Gage, Norman Shetler, and Alexander Lonquich.

He has performed, as soloist or in chamber music and lieder, in concert halls in Italy, France, Germany, Japan, Korea and Turkey as well as the UK.

At the Milan Conservatory he studied composition with Bruno Zanolini. He also graduated with honours in Literature from the University of Milan, presenting a thesis under the guidance of musical drama Emilio Sala.

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