Newest : Beethoven Complete Piano Sonatas (Decca KR)

HieYon Choi’s recording of Beethoven’s complete 32 piano sonatas, released in March 2025, crowns a decade-long artistic journey. Recorded at Teldex Studio Berlin with producer Martin Sauer on a Bösendorfer concert grand, the 9-CD set has already received enthusiastic press for its clarity of articulation, structural depth, and chamber-like transparency.

Following the release, Choi has been presenting selected sonatas in recitals, lectures, and public conversations, continuing the dialogue this monumental cycle inspires. The box set is available in Korea, with international orders offered upon request, worldwide streaming is live on all major platforms.

Praised for her artistry and expressive depth, HieYon Choi is one of the most sought-after pianists of her generation. “One of this sonata’s greatest-ever recorded interpretations… a model of intelligent bravura” (Gramophone). She gained international recognition with prizes at the Kapell, Epinal, Busoni, and Viotti International Competitions and has performed with the National Symphony Orchestra (Washington, D.C.), Berlin Symphoniker, Rundfunkorchester Berlin, Seoul Philharmonic, and Korean Broadcast Symphony.

A highlight of her career was the complete Beethoven sonata cycle at Kumho Art Hall in Seoul, later followed by additional Beethoven cycles across Europe, the U.S., and Korea. Her discography includes the complete Beethoven sonatas (Decca Korea, 2025), Debussy Études, Liszt Paganini Études, and Chopin Études.

Alongside the canon of the classical piano literature such as Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms and Debussy, Music of 20th & 21st century forms another important part of HieYon’s career.

In 2023/24, she joined the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University after 24 years on the faculty of Seoul National University.