Jihan Joo hails from Seoul, South Korea, and while his formal piano education ended at the age of 8, he never stopped appreciating and making music. Jihan was a student piano accompanist at Posung Middle School and High School choir competitions in Seoul, South Korea, and provided piano accompaniment at a Langley High School graduation ceremony held at the Kennedy Center of Washington, DC. Jihan enjoys playing keyboard works of J.S. Bach on a 1965 Zuckerman harpsichord that he restored, and volunteers as a Sunday School pianist at a local ward of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Jihan also has a passion for choral music. He has sung with the Langley High School Madrigals, the Seoul National University Choir, Samsung Electronics Semiconductor Chorus (“Blue Voice”), and various local church choirs. Around the winter holiday season each year, Jihan can be seen around shopping malls, restaurants, and hotel lobbies of Northern Virginia and Maryland, spreading Christmas cheers with the 42nd Street Singers. Jihan has composed original hymn tunes and written a cappella arrangements and transcriptions of sacred and popular music.

When he is not practicing the Goldberg Variations on his piano, or noodling on his violin and soprano recorder, Jihan works as a patent lawyer at Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. in Washington, DC.