Cho holds degrees from the University of Michigan (DMA in Piano, MM in Chamber Music), Indiana University (MM and AD in Piano) and Ewha Women’s University (BM in Piano, Valedictorian, Korea). Her primary teachers were Menahem Pressler, Christopher Harding, Amy I-Lin Cheng, Wonmi Kim and Jung-Eun Kim.
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Jake Johnson Jake Johnson is a writer, pianist, and vocal coach on faculty at the University of Oklahoma. His writing and teaching explore the interweaving of music, literature, art, and media in American life. He is the author of Mormons, Musical Theater, and Belonging in America (2019) and Lying in the Middle: Musical Theater and Belief at the Heart of America (2021) and editor of the volume The Possibility Machine: Music and Myth in Las Vegas (2023). Jake recently began his tenure as incoming Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the American Musicological Society , the flagship journal for the American Musicological Society. Jake is also an active musical collaborator, having worked as a vocal coach, pianist, and musical director for the University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City University, DePaul University, Chicago Opera Theater, AMDA, Music Theatre of Wichita, Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City Ballet, and the Oklahoma City Philharmonic, among others. Many of his former students work prominently in theater, including starring roles on Broadway, in film and television, and on numerous regional and touring productions around the world. Lyndon Meyer Lyndon Meyer is a Tulsa-based pianist and conductor. He has served as chorusmaster, assistant conductor, principal pianist and vocal coach for the Tulsa Opera since 2014. As a vocal coach, Mr. Meyer has held positions at the University of Oklahoma, Michigan State University, and the Eastman School of Music, as well as at the Florida Grand Opera, the OK Mozart International Festival, and in Urbania, Italy. In February 2019, he made his professional conducting debut for Heartland Opera’s production of La bohème . In the world of music theatre, he has directed numerous productions around the country, and has served as staff accompanist for the annual Lotte Lenya competition since 2009.
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