Minsoo Sohn will make his Carnegie Hall and Glenn Gould Studio debuts in October. (Chad Johnston/Honens International Piano Competition)

A Korean-born pianist who was discovered in a Canadian piano competition will make his debut at New York's Weill Recital Hall in Carnegie Hall this fall.

The appearance by Minsoo Sohn will take place Oct. 8, just days after he performs in a solo recital at the Glenn Gould Studio in Toronto on Oct. 3.

In 2006, Sohn won the Honens International Piano Competition for talented young pianists who demonstrate versatility, individuality and a keen musical awareness, a competition held every three years.

As part of the three-season award valued at more than $100,000, Honens offers a career development program that includes a presentation at Carnegie Hall.

Sohn has also performed this year with the Ottawa International Chamber Music Festival, Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, and as a soloist with the Orchestre Symphonique de Québec.

Sohn began studying piano at age three. He studied in Boston at the New England Conservatory of Music and became a top prizewinner at the Rubinstein, Cleveland, Busoni and Hilton Head international piano competitions. He has performed with orchestras across North America and Europe.

His first CD, a disc of Liszt transcriptions and études, was released in the fall of 2008. His followup album was his interpretation of Bach's Goldberg Variations. That performance from the Honens competition has also been broadcast on CBC and on NPR's Performance Today in the U.S.

His recitals at the Glenn Gould Studio and Carnegie Hall will include Beethoven's Diabelli Variations, Leon Kirchner's Interlude II, and Liszt's transcriptions of works by Beethoven, Schubert and Mozart.