Ying Ho
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Ying Ho has performed as soloist and chamber musician across Australia, UK, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and America. A recipient of the prestigious Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music International Scholarship, she studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London with Tatiana Sarkissova, at the Universität der Künste in Berlin with Jacques Rouvier, and the Sydney Conservatorium with Dr Paul Rickard-ford.
Ying has won numerous prizes and scholarships during her studies including the Else Cross (Brahms) Prize and the Maud Hornby Memorial Prize from the Royal Academy, London. She won the Sydney Conservatorium Concerto Competition, the Kathleen and Allison Short Memorial Scholarship, the John and Dorothy Vimpani Scholarship, and the Sonya Hanke Memorial Prize. First prize winner of the Kawai Australasian Youth Concerto Competition, she performed Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No.1 with the Western Australian Youth Orchestra. Ying has worked with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and the Sydney Youth Orchestra. As a chamber musician, she has performed in festivals including the Prussia Cove International Musicians Seminar, the Duo Sonata Program with Pierre Amoyal and Bruno Canino at the Lausanne Academie de Musique in Switzerland, the Estivo Chamber Music Festival in Verona, Italy, and recently at the Mimir Chamber Music Festival in Fort Worth, Texas. She has performed for Musica Viva Countrywide, at the Musica Viva Festival, and her piano trio will feature as one of their regional touring artists in 2019. Ying regularly performs with the Sydney Symphony Fellows, and has appeared in masterclasses with Vladimir Ashkenazy, Maxim Vengerov, Pinchas Zukerman and Anne-Sophie Mutter.
In 2008, Ying spent a year in Jerusalem where she was on the faculty of the Edward Said Conservatory of Music. She gave concerts in Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Ramallah, Haifa and Nazareth, and conducted the Conservatory’s orchestra in Bach’s Keyboard Concerto.
Ying is currently Head of Keyboard at MLC School in Sydney.