Anna Vienna Ho

The Hong Kong pianist, Anna Vienna Ho, received an Advanced Postgraduate Diploma and her Master of Music in Piano Performance with distinction from Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, where she has studied piano with Anthony Hewitt and Margaret Fingerhut and was a recipient of numerous awards and scholarships, including Malcolm John Bullock Memorial Trust Award, Birmingham Conservatoire Association Award and Royal Birmingham Conservatoire International Students Scholarship. Prior to that, she gained her Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Music from the Hong Kong Baptist University, where she was awarded the Hong Kong Government Talent Development Scholarship in two consecutive years. Anna Vienna has won numerous prizes in both local and international piano competitions. She was the prize winner of the International Robert Schumann Klavier Welttbert, 3rd Internationaler Deutscher Irmler-Klavierwettbewerb, Rome International Music Competition, Schumann International Youth Piano Competition, Mid-Somerset Festival, North London Music Festival, London Grand Prize Virtuoso International Music Competition, Abergavenny Eisteddfod Y Fenni and more. As a concert pianist, Anna Vienna has given solo recitals and performed in many concert venues in Hong Kong and Europe, including Royal Albert Hall, Birmingham Town Hall, Parco della Musica and Hong Kong City Hall. Besides performing as a soloist, Anna Vienna is also an experienced collaborative pianist who has performed in varies chamber recitals and collaborated with many choirs and orchestras. She has also worked as a repetiteur for opera companies. Her recent engagements include Opera Novella production of Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte. Anna Vienna has also performed actively as a vocalist. She has studied voice with Klemens Cheng and Helen Field. She was chosen as the soprano solo in Britten's A Ceremony of Carols and performed with the HKBU Choir. Passionate about opera, Anna Vienna has participated in different opera performances, including Puccini's La bohème, Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, Bizet’s Carmen, Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana, Leoncavallo's Pagliacci, Bellini's Norma and Menotti’s Amahl and the Night Visitors. She was the prize winner of the Holmfirth Musical Festival, Newcastle-U-Lyme Festival of Music and Leamington Spa Competitive Festival. Anna Vienna has started her interest in composition since she studied in secondary school. Her compositions include piano, vocal, chamber works, which were premiered in Hong Kong and UK by various musicians. In 2014, she was chosen as one of the finalists in the New Generation 2014 and premiered her String Quartet "The Forester" at RTHK Studio One and was broadcast on RTHK Radio 4. Her art song "Gefrorne Tränen" was premiered in the HKBU Student Composition Showcase. In 2016, her song cycle "Impression of life", two Italian songs "Non posso disperar" and "Aprile" were premiered at Weoley Hill United Reformed Church, Birmingham, UK. In 2018, her Cantonese song “Parting on a Moonlit Night” was premiered at St.Andrew Church Rugby. Her solo piano piece "Images" is included in the RMN Classical album"Modern Music for Piano" and distributed in stores and digital platforms. In 2019, her choral work "The Infinite Shining Heavens" was premiered by London Oriana Choir in their annual concert. She has studied composition with Christopher Coleman and Richard Leigh Harris.