Pianist Tony Cho enjoys a wide-ranging career in keyboard collaborative art as a recitalist, chamber musician, and opera and vocal coach. He has performed at Weill Carnegie Hall in New York City, Meany Hall in Seattle, Harris Concert Hall in Aspen, the Honolulu Museum of Art, Zipper Hall in Los Angeles, and many others in the United States and abroad. His performances with various singers and instrumentalists have been featured on WVIZ Cleveland’s Ovations Series, and live on KVOD Denver, KHPR Honolulu, and WMEA Maine Portland Public Radio’s Tiny Screen Concert Series. Cho, together with his chamber music partner, violinist David Bowlin, has recently appeared at the Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival and the Bowdoin International Music Festival (Maine), Credo Chamber Music Festival (Ohio), Chamber Music Quad Cities (Iowa), An die Music NYC, Oberlin’s StageLeft virtual concert series, and at SongFest at the Colburn School (California).

As opera coach, Cho has been on the music staff at Central City Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, Hawaii Opera Theater, Long Beach Opera, Opera Santa Barbara, Sarasota Opera, Tulsa Opera, and Virginia Opera. In addition, he has served as vocal arts coach at The Juilliard School, on the collaborative piano faculty at Chapman University, and as opera and vocal coach at the University of Southern California and the Oberlin Conservatory.

Originally from South Korea, Cho earned his Doctor of Musical Arts in Piano Performance from the University of Washington; a master’s degree from the University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music; and a bachelor’s degree with a minor in Spanish literature from Oklahoma State University, where in 2017 he was honored with the Distinguished Music Alumnus Award.