Jocelyn Ho Biography
<iframe width="425" height="349" src=Hailed as an artist possessing “a surprisingly unrelenting physical technique” (The Australian), Jocelyn Ho has distinguished herself as one of the leading young pianists in Australia. Born in Hong Kong, Jocelyn started piano at the early age of five and continued her piano studies when she immigrated to Sydney two years later. After scoring a perfect University Admission Index and topping the state of New South Wales in the Higher School Certificate, she embarked on a medical degree with a scholarship, only to find her musical and mathematical desires unfulfilled. Consequently, she took on three majors simultaneously — pure mathematics and computer science at the University of New South Wales, and music at the University of Sydney.
Since then, Jocelyn has won major piano competitions in Australia and overseas, including the first prize and the special prize for music by Haydn, Mozart or Beethoven in the 2010 Australian National Piano Award. She has also won the Sydney Conservatorium Concerto Competition, the Kawai Award, and has performed at the Sydney Opera House, the NSW Parliament House and extensively in the USA and Europe. She was a recipient of the 2007 Australia Day Award by the National Council of Women NSW, and has been broadcasted frequently on ABC Classic FM.
Also a composer, Jocelyn has had her works performed worldwide, from the Sydney Opera House to the Kansas City Fringe Festival. Influenced by her background in pure mathematics, her compositions have garnered her invitations to give talks and lecture-performances internationally, including at the Music, Pattern and Mathematics Workshop held jointly by the University of Edinburgh and Queen’s University in the UK, the International Image Conference in UCLA and the colloquium series at the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities in the USA. Her composition teachers include Chen Yi and Anne Boyd.
Jocelyn holds a Master of Music at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, a Bachelor of Science in mathematics and computer science at University of New South Wales and a Diploma of Arts at the University of Sydney. Her Master thesis is an in-depth investigation of Debussy’s 1913 piano rolls. She has also co-published a paper in the American Mathematical Monthly in February 2005. Currently, she is completing a Doctorate of Musical Arts with Gilbert Kalish at Stony Brook University. Her past teachers include Ian Hobson and Gerard Willems. In her spare time, Jocelyn likes to study pure mathematics and theology. She also enjoys being the long-term pianist and cantor at the Vigil Mass of her local church.
<iframe width="425" height="349" src=Hailed as an artist possessing “a surprisingly unrelenting physical technique” (The Australian), Jocelyn Ho has distinguished herself as one of the leading young pianists in Australia. Born in Hong Kong, Jocelyn started piano at the early age of five and continued her piano studies when she immigrated to Sydney two years later. After scoring a perfect University Admission Index and topping the state of New South Wales in the Higher School Certificate, she embarked on a medical degree with a scholarship, only to find her musical and mathematical desires unfulfilled. Consequently, she took on three majors simultaneously — pure mathematics and computer science at the University of New South Wales, and music at the University of Sydney.
Since then, Jocelyn has won major piano competitions in Australia and overseas, including the first prize and the special prize for music by Haydn, Mozart or Beethoven in the 2010 Australian National Piano Award. She has also won the Sydney Conservatorium Concerto Competition, the Kawai Award, and has performed at the Sydney Opera House, the NSW Parliament House and extensively in the USA and Europe. She was a recipient of the 2007 Australia Day Award by the National Council of Women NSW, and has been broadcasted frequently on ABC Classic FM.
Also a composer, Jocelyn has had her works performed worldwide, from the Sydney Opera House to the Kansas City Fringe Festival. Influenced by her background in pure mathematics, her compositions have garnered her invitations to give talks and lecture-performances internationally, including at the Music, Pattern and Mathematics Workshop held jointly by the University of Edinburgh and Queen’s University in the UK, the International Image Conference in UCLA and the colloquium series at the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities in the USA. Her composition teachers include Chen Yi and Anne Boyd.
Jocelyn holds a Master of Music at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, a Bachelor of Science in mathematics and computer science at University of New South Wales and a Diploma of Arts at the University of Sydney. Her Master thesis is an in-depth investigation of Debussy’s 1913 piano rolls. She has also co-published a paper in the American Mathematical Monthly in February 2005. Currently, she is completing a Doctorate of Musical Arts with Gilbert Kalish at Stony Brook University. Her past teachers include Ian Hobson and Gerard Willems. In her spare time, Jocelyn likes to study pure mathematics and theology. She also enjoys being the long-term pianist and cantor at the Vigil Mass of her local church.
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Master Performers Interview with Jocelyn Ho Part 1
Master Performers Interview with Jocelyn Ho Part 2