Conductor Hee-Chuhn Choi majored in conducting in the Diploma and the premier conductor course (Konzertexamen) in the Department of Conducting of Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin, Germany. He is the first graduate of the Department of Conducting of Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden who took the premier conductor course (Meisterklasse) since the opening of the university. He was awarded the Grand Prize in the German Colleges of Music Competition (Deutsche Hochschulwettbewerb) by the panel of judges unanimously. He also took the first place in the Bad Homburg Conducting Competition.

Conductor Hee-Chuhn Choi has conducted Konzerthaus Orchestra Berlin (Konzerthausorchester Berlin), Jena Philharmonic Orchestra (Jena Philharmonie), Kassel State Orchestra (Staatsorchester Kassel), Brandenburg State Orchestra Frankfurt (Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt), and German State Philharmonic of Rhineland-Pfalz (Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz). He has successfully conducted numerous opera performances including “La traviata” of Verdi in the Munich National Opera House, Heidelberg Opera House, and Annaberg Opera House. After he conducted the “Drei Helden (Three Heroes)” composed by Joern Arnecke at the Rheinsberg Palace Opera House for the first time in the world, he was favorably commented by the Berliner Morgenpost, a major daily newspaper in Berlin saying “He performed the conducting that inspires performing artists.”

He also served as an artistic director and conductor for the performance of Mozart’s opera “The Abduction from the Seraglio” in the Oder-Spree Opera Festival. He also conducted many pieces of opera and ballet as an Assistant Conductor in the Saxony State Theatre.

He conducted Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, KBS Symphony Orchestra, Bucheon Philharmonic Orchestra, Daejeon Philharmonic Orchestra, Gwangju Symphony Orchestra, and Daegu Symphony Orchestra as a guest conductor in Korea. He was awarded the 41st Nanpa Music Award.

He has served as a chief conductor in the Korean National Symphony Orchestra and Jeonju Symphony Orchestra. He is now a professor of conducting in Hanyang University. He is also an artistic director and the 7th chief conductor of the Suwon Philharmonic Orchestra.