CHO, Eun-Hwa

Born in Pusan, Korea, Eun-Hwa Cho began to study compositon at Seoul National University and then continued her composition study under professor Hanspeter Kyburz and music theory under professor Joerg Mainka at Hochschule fuer Musik Hanns-Eisler, Berlin.

Cho’s music has been performed at major music festivals around the world including the Asian Contemporary Music Festival in Seoul, the Ultraschall Festival fuer neue Musik in Berlin, the Internationalen Ferienkursen fuer Neue Musik Darmstadt, Music today 21 in Tokyo, The 15th International Fesrival Musical Olympus in St.Petersburg, the Arcana Fesrival und the Klangspuren in Austria by ensembles and orchestras such as

Arditti Quartet, Molinari Quartet, Ensemble Modern, Tokyo Sinfonietta, Ensemble Recherche, Ensemble InterContemporain, the national Orchestra of Belgium, the KBS Symphony Orchestra and the state Hermitage Orchestra st. Petersburg.

She has been awarded the Hanns-Eisler Preis (First Prize, Berlin, 2002), first prize at Weimarer Fruehjarstage fuer zeitgenoessische Musik (2003), second prize at the Deuxieme Concours International de Composition du Quatuor Molinari (Montreal, 2005), Busoni Kompositionspreis (Berlin, Akademie der Kuenste, 2008) and Queen Elisabeth International Music Competition of Belgium (Grand Prize, Brussels, 2009).

Currently she teaches at the Hochschule fuer Musik Hanns-Eisler, Berlin.