lyrisch en poetisch talent: Soo Cho

Soo Cho heeft inmiddels met haar cd “Prayer” uitgebreid de pers gehaald met lovende recenties!
Haar eerste album met haar eigen kwartet en Angelo Verploegen als gast is een succes! Soo was onder andere te gast bij Vrije Geluiden en speelde in de Young VIP tour.
Haar volkomen eigen benadering van jazz en improvisatie is haar kracht. Verwacht geen rauwe swing, ook geen studeerkamer muziek. Soo Cho gaat met haar prachtige, lyrische en poëtische melodieën direct naar je hart. Titels als Dreamer, Breezer en Suspicion geven dit al aan.
Zeker als die composities mede door Angelo Verploegen op flugelhorn en trompet ook nog eens zo prachtig worden vertolkt.  

BIOGRAPHY
Soo Cho (South Korea) has been playing piano almost all her life.
She took classical lessons since she was 3 years old. Later soo studied classical piano and flute at the sung Sin University in Seoul and followed courses in music history, music philosophy, music pedagogics and many other subjects. After her study she played solo piano in hotels around town, but also was professionaly involved in music business, being responable fot placing bands in mant venues in Seoul. But music kept pulling and after she discovered jazz, she decided to move to Holland and really study the music she loved. When soo arrived in Holland in 2001 she studied at the Utrecht Conservatory with Bert van de Brink. After one year she moved to the more internationally orientated Amsterdam Conservatory and studied with Rob van Bavel, Karel Boehlee and Kris Goessens.
Soo has been writing her own songs over the last years and has formed her own trio with which she is playing quite regularly. She lead the jam sessions at the Jazz club in Dordrech for two years and
organised her own monthly concerts at Baseline Theatre.
In the season 05/06 and 06/07, she has been invited to do a series of concerts at the DJS Jazzpodium in Dordrecht for which she invited many great soloists from Holland and Belgium.The trio is starting to branch out and starts to play quite regularly.

In 2006 Soo graduated from the Jazz piano department at the Amsterdam Conservatory. In 2008 Soo also graduated from the master degree Jazz composition at the Royal Conservatory in Den Haag. At the moment, she is doing the master degree in Amsterdam for Jazz piano, and she will be studying at the Manhattan School of Music in New York as an exchange student for 1 semester.

In March 2008, her 1st debut album “PRAYER” was released by Challenge records. The CD presentation took place at the Bimhuis in Amsterdam on March 14th. At the same time the Soo Cho Quartet featuring Angelo Verploegen was selected to play the Young Vips Tour 2008.

Titel: Prayer
Productie en label: Castus
Gelicenceerd door: Challenge Records

Piano: Soo Cho
Bass: Daniel Lottersberger
Drums: Sotiris Ntouvas
Trumpet/Fluegelhorn: Angelo Verploegen
All compositions by Soo Cho

Soo Cho Quartet
featuring Angelo verploegen

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