“He goes way beyond just playing the notes of Prokofiev’s Sarcasms, while his Debussy ‘Et la lune descend sur le temple qui fut’ from Images Book II and L’isle joyeuse fused colourful allure and palpable rhythmic backbone. Many years ago the late Earl Wild told me that he conceived Liszt’s Dante Sonata in terms of orchestral foreground and background, as opposed to a huge octave étude. As such, he would have appreciated Choni’s like-minded aesthetic as much as I did.”

– June 2022

“Choni offers such consistent clarity of texture and gesture, such unexpected variety of mood and color, such flexibility of phrasing, and such an unerring sense of rhetoric—all combined with stunning fingerwork—that the music snaps into focus.”

– August 2025

“The Ukrainian artist shows the extent of his talent in a remarkably masterful performance of Schumann’s Sonata No. 2, combining breadth and depth.”

– June 2025

“Silvestrov’s Bagatelles, Op 1, marking his shift from avant-garde to simple and harmonious, couldn’t be in safer hands. Choni creates a goosebump-inducing sound world, his focused touch and delicate handling of each harmonic shift drawing a generous gamut of colour from the Bechstein at his fingertips. […] Liebermann’s Gargoyles – one of the finest contributions to the repertoire by a living composer – are a fiendish foursome full of virtuosity, darkness, humour and imagination.”

– May 2025