Sungbin Cho – Partita No. 1 and Fantasy-Divisions

Exceptional young guitarist Sungbin Cho, winner of the London International Guitar Competition in 2021, performs Stephen Dodgson’s Partita No. 1 and Fantasy-Divisions alongside colleague Gonçalo Maia Caetano in a lunchtime recital at the Royal Academy of Music. Entitled ‘The Neoclassical Guitar’, the recital features works by 20th-century composers that juxtaposed Renaissance and Baroque forms with contemporary idioms to produce masterworks for the classical guitar.

Programme

José – Sonata (1933)
Dodgson – Partita No 1; Fantasy Divisions

Gonçalo Maia Caetano and Sungbin Cho guitar

Graduating with a BMus from the Korea National University of Arts, Sungbin Cho subsequently served in the Republic of Korea Air Force where he completed his two-year military service before entering the Royal Academy of Music to undertake an MA in Performance, with Michael Lewin. He is the first Korean national to play classical guitar at the RAM.