Sumi Jo / 조수미 (Soprano)
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22 Kasım 1962'de Kore'de başkent Seoul'de doğdu. Annesi 50'li yıllarda Kore'de karışık bir durumda kendini idare etmeye çalışan amatör bir şarkıcı ve piyanistti. Kızını yetiştirirken kendisi gibi imkânsızlıklar arasında kalmasını istememiş ve 4 yaşından itibaren onu eğitmeye başlamıştır.
1976 yılında Sun Hwa Sanat Okulu’na girmiştir ve 1980 yılında piyano ve ses diploması alarak mezun olmuştur. Yeteneğini kısa sürede gösteren Sumi Jo 81-83 yılları arasında Seoul National Üniversitesi'nde çalışmalarına profesyonel olarak devam etmiştir. Sopranodur. Öğretmenleri arasında Carlo Bergonzi ve Giannella Borelli gibi ünlü isimler de vardı. İtalya da Roma'da kendini geliştirmek adına pek çok çalışma yaptı. Mersin uluslar arası müzik festivalinin beşinci yılında ülkemizi ziyaret etmiştir.
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Sumi Jo (November 22, 1962) is a Grammy award winning South Korean lyric coloratura soprano known for her interpretations of the bel canto repertoire.
Sumi Jo was born in Seoul, Korea. Her mother was an amateur singer and pianist who had been unable to pursue her own professional music studies due to the political situation in Korea during the 1950s. Determined to provide her daughter with opportunities she never had, Jo's mother enrolled her in piano lessons at the age of 4 and later voice lessons at the age of 6. As a child, Jo would often spend up to eight hours a day studying music. In 1976, Jo entered the Sun Hwa Arts School from which she graduated in 1980 with diplomas in voice and piano. She continued her music studies at Seoul National University from 1981–1983. While studying at SNU, Jo made her professional recital debut, appeared in several concerts with the Korean Broadcasting System, and made her professional operatic debut as Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro with Seoul Opera.
In 1983 Jo decided to leave SNU in order to study music in Italy at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome. Among her teachers there were Carlo Bergonzi, and Giannella Borelli. While Jo studied in Italy, she was frequently heard in concert in Italian cities and also on national radio broadcasts and telecasts. It was during this time when Jo decided to use 'Sumi' as her stage name in order to make her name more friendly to European language speakers who often found it difficult to pronounce Soo Kyung.
She graduated in 1985 with a concentration in keyboard as well as voice. Following graduation, Jo began to study voice with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and won several international competitions in Seoul, Naples, Enna, Barcelona, and Pretoria. In August 1986, she was unanimously awarded first prize in the Carlo Alberto Cappelli International Competition in Verona, one of the world's most important contests, open only to first-prize winners of other major competitions.
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