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Ho Chee Kong (Associate Professor and Head of Composition, Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music)

Singaporean composer Dr. HO Chee Kong is Associate Professor and Head of Composition at the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music, National University of Singapore. His commissions and works for both Western and Chinese ensembles have been performed at festivals and concerts such as the Shanghai Spring International Music Festival, China-ASEAN Music Week (China), Singapore Encore (USA), the Asia-Europe New Music Festival, Vietnam-Singapore Friendship Concert (Vietnam), International Bela Bartok Choral Competition (Hungary), International Performing Arts Festival, Asia Choral Days (Japan), Aberdeen Music Festival (Scotland), Internazionale Festival: Antidogma Festival (Italy) Singapore Chinese Orchestra Percussion Festival (Singapore), Contemporary Music Showcase (Hong Kong), Asia Music Festival (South Korea), Eleazar de Carvalho Festival (Brazil), Asian Composers League Conference and Festival (Japan), Festival Internacional Cervantino (Mexico), Electroacoustic Music Festival (Canada), the International Arts Festivals (Australia, New Zealand), Asian Composers League Festivals, Singapore Arts Festivals, and many others.

In 2012, Passage-Fantasy for Cello and Orchestra, a commissioned work by the National Arts Council, was premiered at the Singapore Arts Festival by cellist Qin Li Wei and Chan Tze Law conducting the Orchestra of Music Makers. An arrangement of this work for the Singapore Chinese Orchestra, conducted by Yeh Tsung, was performed at the Asian Composers League Festival and Conference in 2013. Other commissioned works include Tembusu Evenings for solo cello, performed by Qin Li Wei at the inaugural Performers’ Voice International Symposium at the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music; Of Passion and Passages, conducted by Lim Yau and performed by the Singapore Symphony Orchestra in celebration of Keppel Corporation’s 40th Anniversary; Shades of Oil Lamps, commissioned by the National Arts Council and performed by the London Sinfonietta at the Singapore Arts Festival 2008. In 2005, in celebration of Singapore’s National Day, he wrote The Way of Play for the Cincinnati Percussion Group and the Singapore Chinese Orchestra, and for the celebration in 2004, he performed on the computer with the Singapore Chinese Orchestra in his work, Night of Electric Winds, together with Yeh Tsung.

HO serves on arts advisory panels and committees with the Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth, the National Arts Council and the Ministry of Education. In 2003, he was the organizing Chairman for the 29th International Computer Music Conference held for the first time in Southeast Asia at the National University of Singapore. He has served as an elected Vice-President and Regional Director for Asia/Oceana on the Board of the International Computer Music Association and was the Artistic Director and Co-organizer for the International Exchange Composers Concerts between Singapore and Japan in 2005 and 2006 respectively. He is the founding President of the Composers Society of Singapore, which is a country member of the Asian Composers League. He currently serves as the Vice-Chairman of the Asian Composers League Executive Committee and was the Chair of the organizing committee for the 31st Asian Composers League Festival and Conference 2013 held in Singapore.

Webpage - www.hocheekong.com