Chang Hae-Won is one of the leading pianists and piano professors in Korea. She obtained B.A. and M.A. at the Piano Department College of Music at Ewha Womans University in Seoul. She continued her piano studies at the Frankfurt State Misikhochschule. She won various prizes, including first prize at the Korean National Piano Competition. Her career as a concert pianist began in 1957, when she played Beethoven’s C minor Piano Concerto with the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra. Since then she has enjoyed a busy career as a teacher and as a performer in Korea, in other Asian countries, America and Europe, with annual concert tours and engagements at home and abroad. She has appeared as a soloist with major orchestras and in recitals. She has performed as a soloist at numerous music festivals, including the Paris Château de Breteuil Festival, the National Music Festival in Korea and the festival for the opening of the Sejong Cultural Centre and of the Goethe-Institut in Seoul. In 1985 she was acclaimed by the Music Critics’ Circle of Korea as musician of the year. She was also the first Korean to be awarded the Konzertexamen Diploma.