Alex Ho
Composer

Alex Ho is a British-Chinese 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, and National Opera Studio. His works have featured at SoundState Festival (Southbank Centre, London), Sound Unbound (Barbican Centre, London), Chinese Arts Now (LSO St. Luke’s), 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. Upcoming projects are with Nevis Ensemble (digital commission, summer 2020) and Riot Ensemble (Crossroads Festival, Salzburg, November 2020). Alex graduated with first-class honours from Oxford in 2016 before completing a master’s at Cambridge in 2017 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 supported by RCM).