ANNA VIENNA HO

Born in Hong Kong, ANNA VIENNA HO is a versatile musician who has worked as a solo pianist, piano accompanist, répétiteur and composer. She gained an Advanced Postgraduate Diploma and her Master of Music in Piano Performance with distinction from Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, where she received a number of awards and scholarships, including Malcolm John Bullock Memorial Trust Award, Birmingham Conservatoire Association Award and Royal Birmingham Conservatoire International Students Scholarship, to name a few.

Anna was the winner of the International Robert Schumann Klavier Welttbert, Internationaler Deutscher Irmler-Klavierwettbewerb, Concours International Leopold Bellan, Rome International Music Competition, , International Music Competition “Таланты XXI века”, International Moscow Music Competition, 5th Propiano International Competition, Quebec International Music Competition, Montpelier Arts Center Classical Recital Competition, IYMC International Classical Music Competition, Mid-Somerset Festival, North London Music Festival, London Grand Prize Virtuoso International Music Competition, Abergavenny Eisteddfod Y Fenni and Leamington Spa Competitive 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), Birmingham Opera Company("It Gets Lighter From Here" digital project), David Bohn's Twenty Seconds of 2020 project("Chase", for solo Clavietta), Fifteen Minutes of Fame project("Fedora", for solo bass flute), among others. Her solo piano piece "Images" and a piece for solo piano and tape "Medusa" are included in the RMN Classical albums "Modern Music for Piano" and "In Focus4" respectively. Recently, she has been selected as an artist of the Du Vert a L'infini festival, France. Her operas "Buddha and the Monkey King" and "The Monk of the River" have been premiered at the Tête à Tête Opera Festival with the support of the Arts Council England National Lottery fund. These operas have been selected as part of The Arc Project Online Festival and broadcast through digital platforms again in Dec 2021.