TUTORS
Chi-Chung Ho Conductor |
Hailed by critics and the public, Chi-Chung Ho has earned the reputation of “providing first-rate music with the orchestra” (The States News, Michigan State, U.S.A.). His talent in conducting was soon recognized while he was receiving musical trainings in the United States. During his residency in the Washington Metropolitan Area, he was appointed to conduct the Baltimore Symphony for the famed composer/conductor Tan Dun, the Baltimore Lyric Opera, the Peabody Opera, the Peabody Orchestras, and the Christian Oratorio Society. He has also been appointed as the Music Director of the Mason Symphony Orchestra, the University of Michigan Gilbert and Sullivan Society (opera), and the Theatre of Michigan States University (musical), among other conducting positions. A native of Hong Kong, Hoʼs works have been acknowledged beyond his country. Besides the United States, his international engagement includes guest conducting the Filharmonia Sudecka in Poland, the Prague Chamber Orchestra and the Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonic Orchestra in Czech Republic, and the Russe Philharmonic, the New Symphony Orchestra and the Vratca Symphony Orchestra in Bulgaria. Soon after his return to Hong Kong in the end of year 2010, Ho has already collaborated with numerous local groups in performances such as the Opera Hong Kong, the Pan Asia Symphony Orchestra, the Collegium Musicum Hong Kong, the Baptist University Symphony Orchestra, as well as other artistic organizations and individuals. Invited by the world-renowned conductor David Zinman, Ho was a full-fellowship conductor for two seasons at the Aspen Music Festival, where he conducted, studied, and worked closely with Zinman and other prominent artists including Gil Shaham, Leon Fleisher, Joshua Bell, Sarah Chang, Marin Alsop, Edo de Waart, Andreas Delfs, and Michael Stern. A graduate of University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and Peabody Conservatory at Johns Hopkins University, Ho has the privilege to develop as a promising conductor and musician under the tutelage of eminent conductors Gustav Meier, Marin Alsop, and Kenneth Keisler. Ho is active in leading orchestral and choral performances, opera productions, as well as promoting and premiering new works by contemporary composers from around the world. In addition to his works as conductor, he also devotes himself to music education, charity, and voluntary works in Hong Kong. Currently, he is preparing his doctoral research paper for the Peabody Conservatory, where he was the first ever Hong Kong-born Chinese who got accepted into the prestigious doctoral program in orchestral conducting. |
