Anna Vienna Ho

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Anna Vienna Ho

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Disciplines: Piano, Voice, Choir, Chamber Music, Collaborative Coaching, Composition

Genres: Piano - Classical, Voice - Classical, Opera, Musical Theatre

Languages: English and Chinese

Education: Advanced Postgraduate Diploma and Master of Music in Piano Performance with distinction from Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, Bachelor of Arts in Music with Honors from Hong Kong Baptists University

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Born in Hong Kong, Anna Vienna Ho is a versatile musician who has worked as a concert pianist, répétiteur, composer, opera singer and conductor for a number of music organizations, including Welsh National Opera, Birmingham Opera Company, Tête à Tête Opera Festival, Opera Novella, London Oriana Choir, London Gay Symphony Orchestra and Bel Canto Singers among others. She has been selected as a RMN Classical artist, Du Vert a L'infini festival Artist, Syntropy Artist and the Montpelier Arts Center Classical Recital Artist.

Anna gained an Advanced Postgraduate Diploma and a Master of Music in Piano Performance with distinction from Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. Prior to that, she received her Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Music from Hong Kong Baptist University. She was a recipient of numerous awards and scholarships, including Malcolm John Bullock Memorial Trust Award, Birmingham Conservatoire Association Award and Royal Birmingham Conservatoire International Students Scholarship, HKSAR Talent Development Scholarship and more.

Anna was the winner of numerous international piano competitions, including Concours International Leopold Bellan, Rome International Music Competition, International Robert Schumann Klavier Welttbert, Internationaler Deutscher Irmler-Klavierwettbewerb, International Moscow Music Competition, London Grand Prize Virtuoso International Music Competition and Abergavenny Eisteddfod Y Fenni among others. As a pianist, Anna has given solo recitals and performed in many concert venue in Asia and Europe, including Royal Albert Hall, Birmingham Town Hall, Parco della Musica and Hong Kong City Hall. Besides performing as a soloist, Anna is also an experienced collaborative pianist who has performed in various chamber recitals and collaborated with many choirs and orchestras. She has also worked as a repetiteur for Opera Novella, Midland Opera, Welsh National Opera and Bel Canto Singers.

Anna has also appeared frequently as a vocalist. Passionate about opera, Anna has participated in different opera performances in Hong Kong and the UK. She has sung the role of Geraldine in Barber's A Hand of Bridge for the Hong Kong International Institute of Music, Giannetta in Donizetti’s L'elisir d'amore, Frasquita in Bizet’s Carmen and First Lay Sister in Puccini's Suor Angelica for Musica Viva, The Third Apparition in Verdi's Macbeth for Opera In A Box and Gherardino in Puccini's Gianni Schicchi for the London Gay Symphony Orchestra. Other operas she has sung within include Puccini's Turandot for Grimeborn Opera Festival, Bellini's Norma, Verdi's La Traviata, Puccini's La Bohème, Bizet’s Carmen, Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana and Leoncavallo's Pagliacci for Midland Opera, Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, Maria Stuarda, Anna Bolera, Bizet’s Carmen, Handel's Giulio Cesare, Menotti’s Amahl and the Night Visitors and Mozart’s Don Giovanni for Musica Viva, Puccini's Suor Angelica for Random Opera and Don Pasquale for Opera Novella, etc. She was the prize winner of several music festivals, including the Accord International Music Competition, Holmfirth Musical Festival, Bristol Music Festival, Coulsdon and Purley Festival, Basingstoke Music Festival among others.

Anna's compositions include instrumental, vocal, electroacoustic, multi-media and operatic works, which were premiered around the world by various musicians. She has collaborated and was commissioned by many organizations, including the New Generation 2014("The Forester", for String Quartet), London Oriana Choir("The Infinite Shining Heavens" for SATB choir), Birmingham Opera Company("It Gets Lighter From Here" digital project), Animal Hope Varna(promotion videos collaborated with Bulgarian Artist Tatiana Arsova), David Bohn's Twenty Seconds of 2020 project("Chase", for solo Clavietta), Fifteen Minutes of Fame project("Fedora", for solo bass flute), Tête à Tête Opera Festival("Buddha and the Monkey King", "The Monk of the River" & "The Monster of Gao Village"), Château du Fresne-Saint-Mamès("Sea Creatures in our Minds and Hearts"), K622 Clarinet ensemble("Inevitable" for clarinet quartet), among others.

An enthusiastic educator, Anna has been teaching piano for many years and worked at many music organizations. She is also a conductor of choirs and orchestras as well as a vocal teacher, at many secondary and primary schools. Additionally, she acted as an examiner and course instructor at the Hong Kong International Institute of Music and was one of the adjudicators at the Festival of Instrumental and Vocal Arts and International Online Music Competition, Russia, and the International Competition for Musicians, Russia, among others. Anna has also received awards for her excellent work of teaching by the HK Music For Youth and the Asia Youth Culture Association.