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Mina Cho
Mina Cho is a multifaceted scholar, jazz pianist, and composer based in Boston, with a specialization in Korean music and history. She holds a faculty position at Emerson College's Performing Arts Department, where she imparts knowledge in global music courses, encompassing both traditional and contemporary Korean music. Mina earned her initial doctoral degree in jazz composition and a minor in musicology from the New England Conservatory. Presently, she is in the final stages of completing her PhD in musicology dissertation, which focuses on the work of master Pansori singer Dongjin Park at Brandeis University
Beat Mirage
By Mina Cho
Label: International Gugak Jazz Institute Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Nacht Song; A Bit of Grace; Beat Mirage; G-Street Dance; Prints of Imperfection; Parallel Destiny (Unmyung II); If There's a Stage for Me in Heaven.
Mina Cho: Beat Mirage
by Jack Bowers
Korean-born, Boston-based pianist Mina Cho's Beat Mirage represents a marriage between western contemporary jazz and traditional Korean rhythms and percussive modulations. The question that arises is this: on what basis should such a hybrid be evaluated? While it isn't strictly jazz, neither is it entirely Korean and thus devoid of such jazz components as interplay and ...
Pianist Mina Cho Solidifies Her Unique Fusion Of Jazz With Korean Traditional Music On 'Beat Mirage,' Set For February 9 Release
Mina Cho’s startlingly fresh approach to jazz fusion reaches its culmination with Beat Mirage, her fifth album and the debut of her Grace Beat Quartet. Supported by bassist Max Ridley, drummer Yeongjin Kim and percussionist Insoo Kim, the Boston (by way of Seoul) pianist and composer makes bold new strides in her career-long quest to bridge ...
Samulnori Fantasy: Seasons
By Mina Cho
Label: International Gugak Jazz Institute Records
Released: 2023
GreeKorea, “Greeting the Moon”
By Mina Cho
Label: International Gugak Jazz Institute Records
Released: 2021
The Jazz Session #229: Mina Cho
Mina Cho grew up in Korea playing classical music and American gospel. A chance meeting with a Berklee grad sent her to Boston where she studied South American folk music. Her new album, Originality (Mina Cho Music, 2010), combines all those influences and more. In this interview, Cho discusses her uncommon background; her studies with composer ...
Pianist/Composer Mina Cho's Debut CD, "Originality," Due Sept. 7
Pianist Mina Cho was on track for a dazzling classical career when she first encountered gospel music as a university student in her native Seoul. She sought private study of her new passion, which led her to jazz, a scholarship at Berklee College of Music, and the recording of her first CD. The aptly-titled disc, Originality, ...
