Soo Cho (South Korea) has been playing piano almost all her life.She took classical lessons since when she was 3 years old. Later Soo studied classical piano at the Sung Sin University in Seoul. After her studies she played piano in hotels around town, but also was professionally involved in the music business. But music kept pulling and after she discovered Jazz, she decided to move to Holland and really study the music she loved.
When Soo arrived in Holland in 2001 she studied at the Utrecht Conservatory with Bert van den Brink. After one year she moved to study at the more internationally orientated Conservatory in Amsterdam, where she studied with Karel Boehlee, Rob van Bavel and Kris Goessens. Soo has been writing her own music over the last years and has formed her own trio with which she is playing quite regularly. She organized her own monthly concerts at the Baseline Theatre. In the season 05/06 and 06/07 she has been invited to do a series of concerts at the DJS Jazzpodium in Dordrecht for which she invited many great soloists from Holland and Belgium. The trio is starting to branch out and starts to play quite regularly.
In 2006 Soo graduated from the Jazz Piano department at the Amsterdam Conservatory. In 2008 Soo graduated from the Master Degree Jazz Composition at Royal Conservatory in The Hague. In 2009 Soo also graduated for her Master Degree in Amsterdam for Jazz Piano. Besides this she studied for 1 semester at the Manhattan School of Music in New York. She got lessons from, among others, Jason Moran.
In 2008 Soo Cho was selected to play the Young Vips Tour 2008. Also in 2013, she was selected by Musician in residence Nijmegen 2013. At the moment she is spreading out her wings more internationally, like Germany, Belgium, Austria and Italy with her own compositions and her own band(s).