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Alex Ho

Composer
Artist-in-Residence, Opéra Orchestre National Montpellier
Associate Composer, Oxford Lieder Festival
Co-Director, Tangram

  • Winner of the Critics' Circle Young Artist Award 2021, Alex Ho (b.1993) is a British-Chinese composer based in London whose music and stage works have been described as 'menacing and poetic' (The Guardian) and a 'remarkable experience' (Schmopera). Ho is Artist-in-Residence at Opéra Orchestre National Montpellier and Associate Composer at Oxford Lieder Festival. His first (anti-)opera, Untold, won the George Butterworth Award 2020 for 'an outstanding new work', and his music theatre piece, Breathe and Draw, was shortlisted for a Scottish New Music Award 2021, lauded as 'a fresh, different idea, that captured the imagination'. He is the recipient of the PRS Composers' Fund 2022 and a BBC Music Magazine Rising Star 2022. 

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  • Ho has had pieces performed/commissioned by the London Symphony Orchestra, Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Manchester Camerata, BBC Radio 3, Royal Opera House, Het Concertgebouw, National Opera Studio, Music Theatre Wales, London Sinfonietta, Riot Ensemble, Roderick Williams, VOCES8, and National Youth Choirs of Great Britain. His works have featured in venues across the UK, Austria, France, Italy, Germany, Netherlands, Canada, USA and China, on platforms including SoundState Festival (Southbank Centre, London), Sound Unbound (Barbican Centre, London), Hearing China (Shanghai Symphony Hall, Shanghai),  O. Festival Rotterdam, nonclassical (London), Cheltenham Music Festival, and BBC Late Junction.

    He is co-director of Tangram, a collective of composers and performers of Chinese and western instruments, who are Associate Artists of LSO St Luke's for three seasons until 2024/25. Tangram has been selected for the Royal Philharmonic Society's 2023 Drummond Fund for their production of Alex Ho's stage work Untold, an extended version of which will be premiered in Spring 2023 at Flemish Opera (Ghent, Antwerp) and O. Festival Rotterdam.​ Alex Ho graduated from Oxford and Cambridge universities and is completing a doctorate at the Royal College of Music with a full AHRC scholarship. 

    2022/23 season - 266 words. Not to be altered without permission.

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Tangram

Alex Ho is co-director with Reylon Yount of Tangram, a London-based music collective growing transnational community by creatively celebrating Chinese cultures. They have been appointed Associate Artists at LSO St Luke's for three seasons, until 2024/25. 


Tangram's recent work was described as a ‘dazzling instrumental display’ and ‘at the cutting edge of contemporary debates around identity’ by icareifyoulisten.com. 


Alex Ho created anti-opera Untold for Tangram, a stage work which examines the racialised experiences of transnational Chinese communities. Untold explores a theme of ‘not fitting in’ by adapting the Chinese folkstory of Ye Xian, one of the early precursors to the Cinderella fairytale. Future performances are planned in Antwerp, Ghent, Rotterdam and the UK in 2023.


Untold


Tangram


Tangram: Associate Artists at LSO St Luke's 

Alex Ho interviewed for BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking

In 2022, Alex Ho was interviewed for BBC Radio 3’s Free Thinking about Chinese identity in contemporary classical music. His interview begins at 22 minutes. 


Listen: BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking interview

'He combines a coherent individual voice with a breadth of styles, genres and instrumental disciplines, all fired by the spark of his imagination, combining his Chinese heritage and Western Classical form in a compelling and individual way.'

The Critics' Circle

'Purposefully nebulous, refusing to be slotted into any one genre.'

Schmopera

Intermusica represents Alex Ho worldwide.

Catherine Gibbs
Associate Director
+44 20 7608 9946
cgibbs@intermusica.com






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