Biography

First-year Butler Studio artist Jenny Choo, from St. Louis, Missouri, joined the music staff for Sarasota Opera’s 2024 Winter Opera Festival as assistant conductor for Lucia di Lammermoor and L’infedeltà delusa. In summer 2024, she returned to Aspen Music Festival and School as a coaching fellow. In 2023, she served as a vocal coach for the Fletcher Opera Institute at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. Also in 2023, she served on the music staff for the U.S. premiere of Anchorage Opera’s Missing, a work that addresses the tragedy of missing and murdered indigenous women and girls. Choo’s passion for collaboration has taken her and her musical partners to song competitions including the 2021 Kneisel Lieder Competition, where they brought home second prize, as well as the 2022 Wigmore Hall/Bollinger International Song Competition, after which they were invited to London to compete as finalists. She studied collaborative arts with Andrew Harley and conducting with Timothy Long at the Eastman School of Music.