Hyunsoon Whang delights audiences with her artistic maturity and technical fluency.  She is elegant, engaging and entertaining.  Whether she is playing Bach of Bartok, Mozart of Messiaen, you will find Hyunsoon’s music making spirited, sensitive, and refreshingly sincere.

Korean born Hyunsoon Whang began her piano studies at the age of four and started playing public concerts at age twelve. Since then she has delighted audiences in more than 450 concerts across the United States, Europe, Canada, the Cayman Islands, Japan, and Korea. She is a versatile pianist who enjoys performing solo recitals, concertos with orchestra and chamber music concerts. She has appeared as a soloist with noted conductors Leonard Slatkin, Joel Revzen, Miriam Burns and the late Nicholas Harsanyi.

As a recitalist and a collaborator she has performed at Paul Hall in Lincoln Center, the Ordway Theater in St. Paul, Suntory Hall in Tokyo and Se-Jong Cultural Center in Seoul. She has participated in the Aspen Music Festival, Ravinia Festival Master Classes, Canada’s Victoria Music Festival and the Taos School of Music. With her pianist husband Thomas Labé, she performed as a two piano duo in Germany and France to critical acclaim and recorded Alexis Weissenberg's surrealistic musical Nostalgie on the Arkadia label in Montpellier, France.

Critics have praised Whang as "the kind of player who appears to immerse her entire being in the music," and as one who has "always delivered with grace and beauty." Her engagements last season included an appearance with the Lawton Philharmonic Orchestra and a solo recital in Seoul. During the 2008-09 season, she is performing several solo recitals, chamber music concerts with members of the Cleveland Orchestra and the Miami String Quartet, and recorded several works to be aired on television stations throughout the Mid-West. In 2008 she was chosen to serve as the only solo classical pianist on the Oklahoma Arts Council Touring Artist’s Roster, and is on the Mid-America Arts Alliance Touring Roster. 

Whang studied at the North Carolina School of the Arts, the St. Louis Conservatory of Music, The Juilliard School, and earned a doctorate from Indiana University.  Her piano teachers included Gyorgy Sebok, Michele Bloch, Joseph Kalichstein, Clifton Matthews, Jung-joo Oh, and Soo-jung Shin, and she has studied the harpsichord with Maryse Carlin and chamber music with Michael Tree and Felix Galimir. She holds the McMahon Endowed Chair in Music at Cameron University.