Piano Accompanying Studio
Jenny Choo
Piano Accompanying
STUDENT PROFILE
Jenny Choo is pursuing the DMA in Accompanying and Chamber Music at the Eastman School of Music, studying with Dr. Andrew Harley. She holds graduate assistantships in Studio Accompanying and Opera, and is currently on the coaching staff at SUNY Geneseo. Jenny is the recipient of the Barbara M. H. Koeng Award for Vocal Accompanying, an Excellence in Accompanying Award, as well as gaining 2nd Prize at the 2021 Kneisel Lieder Competition. Recent projects include Hänsel und Gretel for Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, and Così fan tutte for Finger Lakes Opera, where she is a Tomita Young Artist. In June of this year, she studied with Graham Johnson and Martin Katz at Songfest, and in September was a finalist at the Wigmore Hall International Song Competition in London.
In 2023, Jenny will be the principal pianist for the American premier of the opera, Missing – a work centered on the 4,000 missing Indigenous women in Canada by Marie Clements and Brian Current, to be staged by Anchorage Opera. Prior to her studies at Eastman, she held the position as Collaborative Pianist and Coordinator of Accompanying at her alma mater, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, where she was the Music Director for their main stage productions.