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 Alex Ho | Co-Director, Artist

Alex Ho is a Chinese-British composer based in London. One of the London Symphony Orchestra's 'Soundhub' composers, Alex has had pieces performed/commissioned by the LSO, Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Opera House, National Opera Studio, Music Theatre Wales, London Sinfonietta, Juice Vocal Ensemble, Ensemble Paramirabo, Roderick Williams, Sholto Kynoch, and the choirs of Christ Church Cathedral and Merton College, Oxford. His works have been heard in venues across the UK, Canada, Italy, Germany and China, on platforms including SoundState Festival (Southbank Centre, London), Sound Unbound (Barbican Centre, London), Hearing China (Shanghai Symphony Hall, Shanghai), nonclassical (London), Snape Maltings, Oxford Lieder Festival, and BBC Late Junction. Alex was joint-winner of the Philip Bates Composition Competition in 2016, one of Sound and Music's 'New Voices 2018', a Help Musicians UK Fusion Fund Artist in 2019, and winner of the George Butterworth Award 2020. 

​Alex studied Music at Oxford University and graduated with first-class honours, before completing a master’s in composition at Cambridge University where he was awarded the Arthur Bliss Prize in Composition. He is currently studying for a doctorate at the Royal College of Music with a full AHRC scholarship (LAHP studentship funded by RCM).

www.alexhocomposer.com