
Alex Ho
Alex Ho (b.1993) is a British-Chinese composer based in London whose music and stageworks have been described as “menacing and poetic" (The Guardian) and a "remarkable experience" (Schmopera). Featured as a BBC Music Magazine Rising Star 2022, he has had pieces performed/commissioned by the London Symphony Orchestra, Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Radio 3, Royal Opera House, Amsterdam Concertgebouw, National Opera Studio, Music Theatre Wales, and London Sinfonietta. Alex is currently Artist-in-Residence at Opéra Orchestre National Montpellier and co-director of Tangram, the first UK-based collective of composers and performers of Chinese and western instruments. Alex graduated from Oxford and Cambridge universities and is completing a doctorate at the Royal College of Music with a full scholarship from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (LAHP Studentship supported by RCM).
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