Discipline: Music Composition

Hubert Ho

Discipline: Music Composition
Region: Cambridge, MA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2005
More: huberthomusic.wordpress.com
Hubert Ho is a composer whose music has been performed in Carnegie Hall under the Pro Musicis Foundation series and at the Kennedy Center for the Arts in Washington, D.C. A former United States Presidential Scholar in the Arts, he is a recipient of the Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His music has been performed at such festivals as June in Buffalo, the Wellesley Composers Conference, the Festival Jiné Pohledy (CZ), Renaissance Arts Academy, Music and Sound Art (Karlsruhe), Cincinnati Conservatory’s Music XX, the Rencontres de nouvelle musique at Domaine Forget, the Aspen School of Music Advanced Master Class Program, the Ernest Bloch Festival, Arcosanti New Music Workshop, New Music North, and various Society of Composers conferences. His music has been commissioned and performed by groups and prominent individuals including Prague Modern, Oesterreiches ensemble fur Neue Musik, FAMA String Quartet, the New York New Music Ensemble, the Verge Ensemble at the Corcoran Gallery, Ensemble Konvergence, the Berg Chamber Orchestra, California EAR Unit, Das Chicas Trio, Playground Ensemble Colorado, Bent Frequency, Barbara Lieurance, Heather Roche.

Studios

Sprague-Smith

Hubert Ho worked in the Sprague-Smith studio.

In January of 1976, the original Sprague-Smith Studio — built in 1915–1916 and funded by music students of Mrs. Charles Sprague-Smith of the Veltin School — was destroyed by fire. Redesigned by William Gnade, Sr., a Peterborough builder, the fieldstone structure was rebuilt the same year from the foundation up, reusing the original fieldstone. A few…

Learn more