Born in Hong Kong, Anna Vienna Ho is a versatile musician who has worked as a concert pianist, répétiteur, composer, opera singer and conductor for a number of music organizations, including Welsh National Opera, Birmingham Opera Company, Tête à Tête Opera Festival, Opera Novella, London Oriana Choir, London Gay Symphony Orchestra and Bel Canto Singers among others. She has been selected as a Du Vert a L'infini festival Artist, Syntropy Artist and the Montpelier Arts Center Classical Recital Artist.

 

Anna gained an Advanced Postgraduate Diploma and a Master of Music in Piano Performance with distinction from Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. Prior to that, she received her Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Music from Hong Kong Baptist University. She 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, HKSAR  Talent Development Scholarship and more.

 

Anna was the winner of numerous international piano competitions, including Concours International Leopold Bellan, Rome International Music Competition, International Robert Schumann Klavier Welttbert, Internationaler Deutscher Irmler-Klavierwettbewerb, International Moscow Music Competition, London Grand Prize Virtuoso International Music Competition and Abergavenny Eisteddfod Y Fenni among others. As a pianist, Anna has given solo recitals and performed in many concert venue in Asia and Europe, including Royal Albert Hall, Birmingham Town Hall, Parco della Musica and Hong Kong City Hall. Besides performing as a soloist, Anna is also an experienced collaborative pianist who has performed in various chamber recitals and collaborated with many choirs and orchestras. She has also worked as a repetiteur for Opera Novella, Midland Opera, Welsh National Opera and Bel Canto Singers.

 

Anna has also appeared frequently as a vocalist. Passionate about opera, Anna has participated in different opera performances in Hong Kong and the UK. She has sung the role of Giannetta in L'elisir d'amore, Frasquita in Carmen for Musica Viva, The Third Apparition in Verdi's Macbeth for Opera In A Box and Gherardino in Puccini's Gianni Schicchi for the London Gay Symphony Orchestra. Other operas she has sung within include Bellini's Norma, Verdi's La Traviata, Puccini's La Bohème, Bizet’s Carmen, Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana and Leoncavallo's Pagliacci for Midland Opera, Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, Maria Stuarda, Anna Bolera, Bizet’s Carmen, Handel's Giulio Cesare, Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda, Menotti’s Amahl and the Night Visitors and Mozart’s Don Giovanni for Musica Viva, Puccini's Suor Angelica for Random Opera and Don Pasquale for Opera Novella, etc. She was the prize winner of several music festivals, including the Accord International Music Competition, Holmfirth Musical Festival, Bristol Music Festival, Coulsdon and Purley Festival, Basingstoke Music Festival among others.