Young-Chang Cho (born 1958) is a South Korean classical cellist teaching at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Germany's Ruhr Area.
[1] In 1981 he won a prize at the Concours de violoncelle Rostropovitch in Paris and was repeatedly invited to serve in its jury.
[1] As a soloist, he performed with the Washington National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Rostropovitch and in Tokyo, Sofia and Bologna, among others.
He was invited for solo recitals and master classes to international music festivals such as Academie Internationale de Musique de Montpellier and the Kronberg Academy (1993 in memory of Pablo Casals, 1995 in memory of Emanuel Feuermann and Jacqueline du Pré, 1997 celebrating the 70th birthday of Rostropovitch).
[1] His students have included Saerom Park and Graham Waterhouse who dedicated the 2019 composition Variations for Cello Solo to him.