Saeyoon Chon

South Korean pianist Saeyoon Chon won First Prize at the 2018 Dublin International Piano Competition and is a laureate of the Maria Canals, Young Concert Artists, Vendôme, Valencia Iturbi, Cooper, Seoul, and Hilton Head competitions. At the Verbier Festival, he received the Tabor Foundation Award as the outstanding pianist of the festival’s soloist programs.

Since making his New York debut at Carnegie Hall, Chon has performed at venues worldwide. Selected for the Steinway Prizewinner Tour, he made his debut at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig in 2019, broadcast live nationwide on MDR radio. His performances have also taken him to the Elbphilharmonie (Hamburg), Église de Verbier, Severance Hall (Cleveland), Seoul Arts Center, Salle Cortot (Paris), Koerner Hall (Toronto), Lincoln Center (New York), the National Concert Hall (Dublin), Salle Bourgie (Montreal), Jinji Lake Concert Hall (Suzhou), and Hong Kong City Hall.

A dedicated chamber musician, Chon performs regularly at major festivals, including the Verbier Festival, Ravinia Festival, Four Seasons Chamber Music Festival, Rockport Chamber Music Festival, and the Hamburg Chamber Music Festival at the Elbphilharmonie. He has collaborated with artists such as Midori, Barry Shiffman, Nicholas Kitchen, Denis Goldfeld, Michael Kannen, Thomas Carroll, Jens Lindemann, and the Calidore String Quartet.

As a soloist, he has appeared with The Cleveland Orchestra and the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, as well as orchestras in Seoul, Hong Kong, Valencia, Hilton Head, and Astana. Since 2022, he has served as Artist-in-Residence at Schloss Hafenpreppach in Bavaria, presenting annual chamber music projects and recitals.

A graduate of The Juilliard School, Chon is an alumnus of the Verbier Festival Soloist Academy and a fellow of the Ravinia Festival Steans Music Institute. He has studied with Robert McDonald, John O’Conor, Jeffrey Swann, Hyoung-Joon Chang, and James Anagnoson, and has worked with Leon Fleisher.

Chon is currently a Doctor of Musical Arts candidate at NYU Steinhardt, where he serves on the faculty in Piano Studies. He is also a faculty member at the Brooklyn College Preparatory Center (CUNY). His concert schedule is available at saeyoonchon.com

Saeyoon Chon is a Steinway Artist.