Hyejin Cho, Piano

Pianist Hyejin Cho is a highly active performer with recent concerts across the U.S., Germany, Italy, Austria, England, Japan, and Korea. Her performances have been broadcast on the Dame Myra Hess Concert Series on WFMT 98.7FM, Parma Recording Live Stage and Wheaton College Artist Series among others. Her enthusiasm for Robert Schumann led her to develop the Robert Schumann Concert Series, a project that she has established in seven different states in the U.S. with the support by the Missouri Arts Council, Kate Neal Kinley Memorial Fellowship and University of Michigan Research Grant. Other than the Schumann project, she is developing a project on female composers with a mission to create an equal platform for female composers. Currently, she is researching unknown works by Cécile Chaminade and Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel, which she has played in public concerts from the 2021-22 season.
Along with her solo career, Cho is very passionate about chamber music, having had extensive collaborative performance experiences. She is a founding member of the American Prize winning Koinonia Piano Trio that has performed in New York, Florida, Illinois, Michigan, Missouri, Minnesota, Alaska in the U.S., 5 cities in Europe and Osaka in Japan. Also, she has frequently been invited as a duo performer with artists such as David Halen, Yizhak Schotten and Jonathan Ruck, with the latter of whom she will be performing the complete works written for piano and cello by Beethoven in the 2023-2024 season. Her passion for collaboration also brought her to numerous music festivals, including the Innsbrook Institute, Maui Classical Music Festival, Anchorage Chamber Music Festival, Center Stage Strings.
In addition to performing, Cho is an enthusiastic educator teaching piano, collaborative piano and chamber music at institutions and music festivals. She is currently on the piano faculty at Oklahoma State University as Visiting Assistant Professor. In addition, she serves on the board for the Oklahoma Music Teachers Association as Collegiate Chapter Chair. Furthermore, she is an executive director of the OMF Music Resources (http://omfmusicresources.com) established in 2014 by Kenneth Drake and Jun-Hee Han to work with collegiate level students in the country by offering shared visits to schools of music and music departments by giving lectures, masterclasses and performances.
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.