Young-Chang Cho

Young-Chang Cho (born 1958) is a South Korean classical cellist teaching at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Germany's Ruhr Area.

Career Young-Chang Cho was born in Seoul, South Korea in 1958. He began cello lessons at the age of eight. From 1971, he studied in the United States with David Soyer at the Curtis Institute of Music of Philadelphia, and later with Laurence Lesser at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. In 1980, he continued his studies in Europe with Siegfried Palm and Mstislav Rostropovich.

Since 1987 he has been teaching violoncello at the Folkwang Hochschule, now Folkwang University of the Arts.