Reviews

Dragon Realms – Review by The Winnipeg Free Press
Fallen Angel – Review by The Winnipeg Free Press
Stigmata – Review by The Contemporary Music Review (San Francisco)
Stigmata – Review by The New York Times
Sonata for Violin and Piano – Review by The Winnipeg Free Press
Sonata for Violin and Piano – 2nd review by The Winnipeg Free Press

Articles

Saving the Arctic, with a symphony – Macleans Magazine
Winnipeg composer puts ear to Arctic ice for musical inspiration – CBC News
Vincent Ho’s Arctic Symphony – Suite 101
The Man Behind the Music – Canstar News

Vincent Ho – Biography

Winner of numerous awards and prizes, Vincent Ho has emerged as a much sought-after composer. During his academic studies, his works were already being performed by many prestigious ensembles and orchestras, including The Toronto Symphony Orchestra, The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, The Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, and l’Orchestre de la Francophonie canadienne. His music has also been featured at numerous festivals such as The Winnipeg New Music Festival, New York’s MATA New Music Festival, Parry Sound’s Festival of the Sound, The Markham Music Festival, Toronto’s Massey Hall New Music Festival, Ottawa’s Strings of the Future Festival, and Bakersfield’s New Directions Series. In addition to North America, his works have been performed in China, France and Italy. He is currently the Composer-In-Residence to the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra.

His many awards have included Harvard University’s Fromm Music Commission, The Canada Council for the Arts’ “Robert Fleming Prize,” The Canadian Music Centre’s “2006 Emerging Composer Prize”, the “Morton Gould Young Composer Award,” four SOCAN Young Composers awards, EARPLAY’s “Donald Aird Memorial Composition Award,” Portland Chamber Music Festival’s “2006 Composers’ Competition”, the “Audience Prize” from the Toronto New Music Festival, and The University of Southern California’s “2004 Sadye J. Moss Composition Prize.” In addition, his self-titled album has been nominated for Best Classical Composition at the Western Canadian Music Awards two years in a row (2007-08)

Born in Ottawa, Ontario in 1975, Vincent Ho began his musical training through the Royal Conservatory of Music. He received his Associate Diploma in Piano Performance from the Royal Conservatory of Music (Toronto) in 1993, his Bachelor of Music from the University of Calgary in 1998, his Master of Music degree from the University of Toronto in 2000, and his Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Southern California (2005). His mentors have included Allan Bell, David Eagle, Christos Hatzis, Walter Buczynski, and Stephen Hartke. In 1997, he was awarded a scholarship to attend the Schola Cantorum Summer Composition Program (Paris, France)where he received further training in analysis, composition, counterpoint, and harmony, supervised by David Diamond and Philip Lasser from the Juilliard School of Music and Narcis Bonet from the Paris Conservatoire.

Awards

• Finalist in the 2009 CBC/Radio-Canada’s EVOLUTION – National Composition Prize. “Nature whispers…” was awarded The People’s Choice Award based on the online votes of listeners from across the country.
• String Quartet No. 1 – Nominated for “Best Classical Composition of the Year” in 2008’s Western Canadian Music Awards (from self-titled CD recording).
• Nighthawks – Nominated for “Best Classical Composition of the Year” in 2007’s Western Canadian Music Awards (from self-titled CD recording).
• Harvard University’s prestigious “Fromm Music Commission” (2006) for the creation of Sonata for Violin and Piano for Gwen Hoebig (violin) and David Moroz (piano).
• The Portland Chamber Music Festival’s “2006 Composers’ Competition Prize” for Shattering the Ethereal Resonance.
• The 2006 Canadian Music Centre’s “Emerging Composer Prize” for Stigmata.
• The Canada Council for the Arts’ Robert Fleming Prize for most talented young composer of the year (2006).
• Finalist in the 2005 Hultgren Solo Cello Works Biennial for Stigmata.
• The ASCAP Foundation’s “2004 Morton Gould Young Composer Award” for Dragon Realms.
• Second Prize in the SOCAN Foundation’s 2004 Awards for Young Composers for Dragon Realms (Sir Ernest MacMillan Awards – works for 13 performers or more).
• Second Prize in the SOCAN Foundation’s 2004 Awards for Young Composers for Stigmata (Pierre Mercure Awards – solo/duet category).
• The University of Southern California’s “Sadye J. Moss Composition Prize” for Dragon Realms (2004).
• EARPLAY’s “2004 Donald Aird Memorial Composition Award” for Stigmata.
• Third Prize in the SOCAN Foundation’s 2000 Awards for Young Composers for Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra (Sir Ernest MacMillan Awards – works for 13 performers or more).
• Second Prize in the SOCAN Foundation’s 1999 Awards for Young Composers for String Quartet No. 1 (Serge Garant Awards – works for 3-12 performers).
• First Prize in the 1999 Peel Music Festival for Three Scenes of Childhood (Toronto, Ontario).
• The Audience Prize in the 1999 Toronto New Music Festival for Three Scenes of Childhood.