Minsoo Sohn

Pianist Minsoo Sohn has become a powerful voice in the music of both Bach and Beethoven. Born in 1977 in South Korea, Sohn began playing the piano at three, studied at the Korea National University of Arts, and then at the New England Conservatory in Boston with Russell Sherman and Wha Kyung Byun. He won first prize at the 2006 Honens International Piano Competition, and has since toured with orchestras including the Vienna Symphony Orchestra and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, and appeared at festivals such as Verbier, Gstaad and La Roque d’Anthéron. A committed teacher, Sohn counts Yunchan Lim among his students, and the two have toured together as a duo. In 2020, Sohn’s recording of all Beethoven’s 32 piano sonatas was released by Sony Classical, and in 2026 he recorded Book I of The Well-Tempered Clavier for Hyperion.