Clarinetist Paul Won Jin Cho studied at the University of Southern California under Yehuda Gilad and at Yale University with David Shifrin. He has earned the Leni Fe Bland Music Scholarship, Koussevitzky Young Artists Award, Nyfenger Memorial Prize, and The Dean's Prize at Yale University. Paul has also won awards at Yale's Woolsey Hall Concerto Competition and Korea's Donga Competition. He has performed as a soloist with the Suwon Philharmonic Orchestra, Torrance Symphony, and Yale Philharmonia. Paul has also appeared with the New Haven Symphony, Singapore Symphony, and Suwon Philharmonic orchestra under such conductors as Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos, Myung-whun Chung, Placido Domingo, James Levine, and Kent Nagano. He has participated in the Aldeburgh, Menton, Tanglewood, and Riva del Garda music festivals, as well as others in East Asia, including the 2010 Great Mountains Music Festival. As part of his Academy program, Paul teaches in Brooklyn at PS 200K.