Choo Choo Hu

Biography

Choo Choo Hu has performed all across the United States, Canada, Europe, and Asia as a soloist, chamber musician, and collaborative pianist. Notable recent highlights from her 2025-26 season include the world premiere performance of Valerie Coleman's "Mama Griot" at the National Flute Association convention, and a Vietnam tour with the Johns Creek Symphony Orchestra.

Recent concerto engagements include appearances with the Atlanta Symphony, the Spokane Symphony, and the Atlanta Philharmonic. She frequently collaborates with the Atlanta Symphony as an orchestral/collaborative pianist, and with the Atlanta Opera as music director/repetiteur. She has also performed with the Baltimore Symphony, the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra, The York Symphony, and Prince George's Philharmonic.

Choo Choo is a founding member of ensemble vim, a non-profit new music collective dedicated to bringing multidisciplinary performances of underrepresented living composers to underserved communities. Choo Choo is a graduate of the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore where she studied with Leon Fleisher and Brian Ganz. She was a recipient of the Albert and Rosa Silverman Memorial Scholarship, the Yale Gordon Chamber Music Fellowship, and the Grace Clagett Ranney Prize in Chamber Music.

Choo Choo currently resides in Atlanta with her husband, where they live their best DINKWAD lives (Dual Income No Kids With A Dog.) She loves nothing more than to host wine and music reading parties, and dreams of one day opening a chamber music festival/farming co-op somewhere in the mountains.