Born on 28 May 1994, in Seoul (South Korea), Seong-Jin Cho is today based in Paris. He won the International Fryderyk Chopin Competition for Young Pianists in 2008 and the Hamamatsu Piano Competition in Japan in 2009, as well as Third Prizes in both the Tchaikovsky Competition in Russia in 2011 and the Arthur Rubinstein Competition in Tel Aviv in 2014.