From 7 July to 27 July 2025, Youngjae Cho will be at ICST for his Studio Residency.
Youngjae Cho is a composer based in Korea and Germany. He is often inspired by daily life and tries to find various ways to connect the sounds or landscapes he has experienced with his compositions. The variety of his works includes solo and chamber music, electroacoustic music, live electronics, collaborations with video art, especially the realization of immersive spaces through multi-channel audio systems. His works have been performed at various festivals (DEGEM, ZKM, ICMC, SICMF, NYCEMF, SMC, Weimar Spring Days, ORF Musikprotokoll) in Germany, Ireland, China, Italy, France, Portugal, the USA, Austria and Korea. He has received scholarships from DAAD, and Deutscher Musikrat, as well as awards from the George Enescu Competition (1st Prize, Romania), Younghi Pagh-Paan Composition Prize (3rd Prize, Korea), Via Nova Competition (1st Prize, Germany), SoundChain International Composition Competition (Special Prize, Czech Republic) and IEM & VDT Student 3D Audio Production Competition (Gold Award, Austria). He studied composition in South Korea and with Prof. Peter Gahn at the Nuremberg University of Music. Since 2021 he has been studying electroacoustic composition with Prof. Kilian Schwoon at the University of the Arts Bremen (master's degree and concert exam). Visit Youngjae Cho's website for more information.