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by Vincent Ho | for Tam-tam
by Vincent Ho | for Tam-tam
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consisting of the live recordings of The Shaman and Arctic Symphony featuring the Winnipeg<br />
Symphony Orchestra, Dame Evelyn Glennie, and the Nunavut Sivuniksavut Performers. The<br />
Shaman went on to receive a 2018 Juno Award nomination for Classical Composition of the<br />
Year, with Arctic Symphony landing Ho another Classical Composition of the Year nomination<br />
in 2019.<br />
In 2015 Canadian piano trio Gryphon Trio commissioned a new work from Ho. The resulting<br />
work, Gryphon Realms, was premiered in December of that year, with each movement based<br />
on the personalities of each player of the Gryphon Trio, along with gryphon mythology. Ho<br />
has recently explored elements of Chinese music and culture as part of his compositional<br />
development. In 2016 a co-commission from the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra and the<br />
National Chinese Orchestra Taiwan resulted in Ho’s work for Chinese Orchestra, Journey<br />
of the Red Phoenix. The following year, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra commissioned<br />
and gave the premiere performance of Ho’s Rejuvenation: A Taoist Journey for narrator,<br />
solo pipa, and orchestra, featuring renowned Chinese pipa player Wu Man. In 2019, Ho was<br />
the recipient of the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publisher of Canada’s Jan V.<br />
Matejcek New Classical Music Award.<br />
Ho’s music is rich and energetic—a unique integration of influences. His work often<br />
demonstrates the capacity to coherently synthesise and convey the felt inspiration incited<br />
by a multitude of artistic mediums. This amalgamation of influences is evidenced in Four<br />
Paintings by Leestemaker (2005), which musically construes the ‘murky,’ unsettling qualities<br />
communicated in the paintings of Leestemaker, and Arctic Symphony, where electroacoustic<br />
material is utilised in order to more effectively allow the listener to intuit the natural<br />
soundscapes from which the work emerged, as well as the sense of wonder experienced by<br />
the composer. Additionally, traditional classical music forms and the physical properties<br />
of the instruments and ensembles for which Ho writes are all inherent influences in his<br />
diverse and creative output. His music is sensual, sonorous and richly textured, and Ho gives<br />
considerable attention to the audience’s experience of his intricate sound-worlds.<br />
Latest information about the composer may be found at www.vinceho.com.<br />
PE170 – 4