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23. November 2025

French vs Korean impressionism

[vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" text_align="left" css_animation=""][vc_column width="1/6"][vc_column_text]By Deung-Yong Jung, AJU Economy KR, 2017[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text] French Impressionism vs. Korean Impressionism Presented by Pianist Hie-Yon Choi   “French music played a central role in the Baroque and modern periods of European music history. It stands at the heart of contemporary...

23. November 2025

Beethoven, next to him, Hieyon Choi

[vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" text_align="left" css_animation=""][vc_column width="1/6"][vc_column_text]By Suh-Hyun Hur, Monthly Pianoforte KR, 2019[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text] Pianist Hie-Yon Choi, widely regarded as a “Beethoven specialist,” released a new Beethoven recording last month with four sonatas on the Decca label. In her CD liner notes she writes:   “I still find...

23. November 2025

New album evoke the spirit of Vienna

[vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" text_align="left" css_animation=""][vc_column width="1/6"][vc_column_text]Yoon-Jong Yoo, Dong-A Daily, 2019 [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text]Beethoven sonatas that evoke the spirit of “Vienna” Pianist Hie-Yon Choi releases a new album Performed on an 1838 Bösendorfer … deep, elegant sound In contrast to the brilliant Steinway tone   A Beethoven recording one wants to keep...

23. November 2025

A wild fury across all the keys

[vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" text_align="left" css_animation=""][vc_column width="1/6"][vc_column_text]By Roland Moll, Ostfriesischer Kurier, 2015[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text]Spectacular concert experience of the highest pianistic art in the well-filled church of Dunum   Hie-Yon Choi revealed Beethoven’s sonatas as a powerful dialogue between a romantic foundation and a crystallized, sharply etched interpretive vision. From...

23. November 2025

As if Beethoven Himself

[vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" text_align="left" css_animation=""][vc_column width="1/6"][vc_column_text]By Ina Wagner, Emder Zeitung, 13 August 2015 [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text] As if Beethoven Himself Were at the Piano Pianist Hie-Yon Choi performed five Beethoven sonatas in the Church of Dunum   In her third appearance, the Korean pianist Hie-Yon Choi once again presented piano...

23. November 2025

TongYeong Lady

[vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" text_align="left" css_animation=""][vc_column width="1/6"][vc_column_text]By Sung-Hyun Kim, Chosun Daily, 2009[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text]In 1986, Prof. Hie-Yon Choi moved to Berlin for further study and that same year participated in an internal competition at the Universität der Künste Berlin. One of the mandatory requirements was to...

20. November 2025

Piano News

[vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" text_align="left" css_animation=""][vc_column][vc_row_inner row_type="row" type="full_width" use_row_as_full_screen_section_slide="no" text_align="left" css_animation=""][vc_column_inner width="1/4"][vc_column_text]By Carsten Dürrer Piano News Quarterly 03/2019[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]Interpretation 6/6 Sound quality 6/6 Repertoire value 5/6[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width="3/4"][vc_column_text]Höreindruck The Korean Pianist Hie-Yon Choi won awards for her Beethoven Sonata Cycle in her home country. No wonder, she studied with Klaus Hellwig in...

20. November 2025

Gramophone Collector

[vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" text_align="left" css_animation=""][vc_column][vc_row_inner row_type="row" type="full_width" use_row_as_full_screen_section_slide="no" text_align="left" css_animation=""][vc_column_inner width="1/4"][vc_column_text]By Jed Distler Gramophone UK, August 2025[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width="3/4"][vc_column_text]Beethoven Piano Sonatas[/vc_column_text][vc_separator type="normal" border_style=""][vc_column_text] Between 2013 and 2023 HieYon Choi recorded all 32 Beethoven sonatas at Berlin’s Teldex studio. The cycle’s physical edition is hard to source outside...

18. November 2025

Pastoral, Passionate

[vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" text_align="left" css_animation=""][vc_column width="1/4"][vc_column_text]By Jin-Suk Kim Music Journal, February 2022[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][vc_column width="3/4"][vc_column_text]New Year's Concert 2022 The House Concert by Pianist HieYon Choi[/vc_column_text][vc_separator type="normal" border_style=""][vc_column_text]I told to my acquaintance about the concert a night before, “the specialty of well-seasoned main chef at the top restaurant”....

18. November 2025

Beethoven, Rhythmic, Full of Energy

[vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" text_align="left" css_animation=""][vc_column width="1/4"][vc_column_text]By Christoph Keller Nordwest Zeitung, July 2022[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][vc_column width="3/4"][vc_column_text]Beethoven's Sonata, Rhythmic and Full of Energy[/vc_column_text][vc_separator type="normal" border_style=""][vc_column_text]Sengwarden – it is almost a matter of course for great pianists, to occupy themselves with entire piano sonatas by Ludwig van Beethoven. His 32...

18. November 2025

Goldberg Variations SAC

[vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" text_align="left" css_animation=""][vc_column width="1/4"][vc_column_text]By Yong-Won Sung Monthly Review KR, December 2023[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][vc_column width="3/4"][vc_column_text]For the final performance of the Seoul Arts Center’s 30th Anniversary Special Concert in the main hall, pianist HieYon Choi took the stage to perform Bach’s *Goldberg Variations, BWV 988*, a monumental...

18. November 2025

HieYon Choi’s Beethoven Complete I

[vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" text_align="left" css_animation=""][vc_column width="1/4"][vc_column_text]By Yong-Won Sung Monthly Review KR, April 2025 [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][vc_column width="3/4"][vc_column_text]Waldstein Sonata – Her performance brims with tension and resilient elasticity. The clear articulation and rhythmic precision, reminiscent of Baroque style, propel the rapid passages forward. It conveys an intellectual aura —...