Works
Note: for full pdf files or recordings of any of the following works, please email your request to vince@vinceho.com or contact the Canadian Music Centre.
ORCHESTRA:
Dragon Realms (revised 2006) – 2222/4221/2perc+timp/pno/strings
Duration: 12 minutes
Score excerpt
Listen
Étude (2001)
Duration: ca. 1.5 minutes
Listen
Fallen Angel: In Memoriam Richard D’Amore (2008) -
Full orchestra version: 2222/4220/2perc+timp/pno/strings
Smaller orchestra version: 2222/2200/2perc+timp/pno/strings (66442)
Duration: 20 minutes
Commissioned by The Canada Council for the Arts for The Esprit Orchestra
Score excerpt – Pages 1-5
Listen (Esprit Orchestra, Alex Pauk conductor)
Listen (Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Mickelthwate conductor)
“Nighthawks” (2000) – for cello and orchestra;
2222/4221/2perc+timp/pno/strings
Duration: 9 minutes
Score excerpt
Listen
On the Edge of Infinity (2005) – 2222/4221/2perc+timp/pno/strings
Duration: 3-4 minutes
Commissioned by The Olympic Arts Fund for The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra
Red Zen (2008) – 3332/4331/2perc+timp/pno/strings
Duration: 16 minutes (full version); 9 minutes (short version)
Commissioned by The Canada Council for the Arts for The Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra
Score excerpt
Listen (full version)
CHAMBER MUSIC:
Euphoric Dreams (2000) – for clarinet, trumpet, violin, and percussion
Duration: 10 minutes
Four Paintings by Leestemaker (2005) – for 2 violins, viola, cello, double-bass,
and piano
Duration: 16 minutes
Commissioned by The Canada Council for the Arts for The Artists of the Royal Conservatory (ARC) Ensemble
Score excerpts – mvt 1 / mvt 2 / mvt 3 / mvt 4
Listen – mvt 1 / mvt 3
Four Snapshots of a Dream (2002) – for flute and piano
Duration: 10 minutes
Listen – I. Canto / III. A-Bach-alypse
“Nature whispers…” (2009) – for flute, clarinet, bassoon, horn, trombone, percussion, piano, 2 violins, viola, cello, and double-bass
Duration: 11 minutes
For the CBC/Radio-Canada’s National Composition Prize (2009)
Score excerpt
Click here for video of performance by Enemble Contemporain du Montreal (Veronique Lacroix, conductor)
Prelude and Groove (2008) – for violin an piano
Duration: 6 minutes
Commissioned by The University of Calgary for the Rosza Centre’s Celebration series.
Score excerpt
Remnants of a Glass Cathedral (2002) – for flute, clarinet, bassoon, horn, t
trumpet, percussion, harp, 2 violins, viola, cello, and double-bass
Duration: 10 minutes
Score excerpt
Shattering the Ethereal Resonance (2001) – for clarinet, violin, viola, cello and
percussion
Duration: 12 minutes
Score excerpt
Sonata for Violin and Piano (2009)
Duration: 24 minutes
Commissioned by Harvard University’s Fromm Music Foundation
Score excerpts – mvt 1 / mvt 2 / mvt 3 / Interlude / mvt 4
String Quartet No. 1 (1999)
Duration: 15 minutes
Score excerpts – mvt 1 / mvt 2 / mvt 3
Listen - mvt 1 “David” / mvt 2 “Rhonda”
Through the Gates of the Crystal Garden (2002) – for violin and piano
Duration: 5 minutes
Commissioned by The Alliance for Canadian New Music
Score excerpt
VOCAL:
The Blue Rose (text by Gerda Klein) – for speaker, flute, oboe, clarinet, French horn and bassoon (1998)
Duration: 5 minutes
Four Songs (text by Lien Chao, Paul Yee, and Alan Woo; 2006) – for soprano, flute, clarinet, percussion, piano, violin, and cello
Duration: 20 minutes
SOLO:
Reflections in the Water (1999) – for piano
Duration: 7 minutes
Commissioned by The Markham Music Festival
Score excerpt
Listen (Vincent Ho, piano)
Stigmata (2004) – for cello
Duration: 11 minutes
Score
Listen (Jakub Omsky, cello)
The Swan (1995) – for piano
Duration: 7 minutes
Three Scenes of Childhood (1997) – for piano
Duration: 5 minutes
Score excerpts – I. Playtime / II. An Afternoon Nap / III. The Tantrum
Listen - I. Playtime / III. The Tantrum
