Dr. Hyejin Cho enjoys a flourishing performance career as a soloist and chamber musician, with concerts across the United States, Europe, and Asia. Her research, centered around her passion for Robert Schumann, led her to develop a concert series featuring his piano works in eight different states, supported by the Missouri Arts Council, the Kate Neal Kinley Memorial Fellowship from the University of Illinois, and the University of Michigan Research Grant. Her Schumann performances have been featured internationally on Parma Recordings Live Stage and nationally through WFMT, KOPN, and other major outlets.
In addition to her work on Schumann, Dr. Cho is committed to advocating for women composers and expanding their presence in the classical canon. Her scholarship and performances have focused on Cécile Chaminade, Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel, Madeline Dring, and Vivian Fine, including a commercial recording of Fine’s chamber works on Albany Records (2023). She also launched The Mendelssohns—supported by the Wheaton College Conservatory of Music, the Musicians Club of Women, and the Fourth Presbyterian Church of Chicago—to highlight Fanny Mendelssohn’s distinct voice and her artistic dialogue with Felix. This project has been featured at the American Liszt Society Festival 2025: Liszt and Women (TN), the MasterWorks Festival (VA), the Musicians Club of Women (IL), and the Ewha Womans University Alumni Association.
A passionate chamber musician and collaborative pianist, Dr. Cho has extensive performance experience in both the professional concert field and academia. She is a founding member of the American Prize-winning Koinonia Piano Trio, a performing and teaching ensemble that has toured throughout the United States—including New York, Florida, Illinois, Michigan, Missouri, Minnesota, and Alaska—and in five European cities across Austria, Germany, and Italy. She has collaborated with renowned artists such as Gilles Apap, Danielle Belen, Aaron Berofsky, Chad Burrow, Joseph Cooper, Maximilian Dimoff, Xin Gao, Nathan Giem, Craig Goodman, David Halen, Chee-Yun Kim, Jesse Krebs, Andrew Parker, Ryan Robinson, Jonathan Ruck (Beethoven: Complete Works for Cello and Piano, forthcoming 2026, Blue Griffin Recording), Yizhak Schotten, Shawn Seguin, the Arianna String Quartet, and members of the Cleveland Orchestra, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra, Lansing Symphony Orchestra, and the Calidore String Quartet, among others. She has also appeared at major music festivals including the Innsbrook Institute (MO), Maui Classical Music Festival (HI), Anchorage Chamber Music Festival (AK), Ann Arbor Chamber Fest (MI), Center Stage Strings (MI), and the University of Oklahoma Summer String Academy (OK).
Dr. Cho holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Piano Performance and a concurrent Master’s degree in Chamber Music from the University of Michigan, where she studied with Christopher Harding and served as his assistant. She earned her Master of Music and Artist Diploma from Indiana University under Menahem Pressler, and her Bachelor of Music, summa cum laude and valedictorian, from Ewha Womans University in Seoul, where she studied with Jungeun Kim and Wonmi Kim. An enthusiastic educator, Dr. Cho currently serves on the piano faculty at the Wheaton College Conservatory of Music.