South Korean pianist Hyoung-Lok Choi has garnered an impressive list of
international competition successes. His most recent success was in the 2019
7th Sendai International Music Competition in Japan, where he won first prize
and received numerous concert engagements. Previous successes include the
finalist at the 2017 Ferrucio Busoni International Piano Competition and third
prize in the 2015 Asia-Pacific Chopin International Piano Competition.
He has performed in prestigious concert venues such as Tokyo Metropolitan
Theatre, Tokyo Hamarikyu Asahi Hall, Hitachi System Hall in Sendai (Japan),
Seoul Arts Center.
He has since been involved in building an international career, had played as a
soloist with many other orchestras including the Japan Philharmonic, Sendai
Philharmonic, Kyushu Symphony, Armenian State Symphony, Gyeonggi
Philharmonic, Bucheon Philharmonic, Gangnam Symphony.
He began learning piano at the age of seven. He studied with Prof. Hee Sung
Joo and graduated as a cum laude from Seoul National University. He also
studied with Prof. Pavel Gililov at University Mozarteum Salzburg, Austria. Since
2023, He has been studying with Prof. Arnulf von Arnim at Musikhochschule
Muenster, Germany.