HO, Alice Ping Yee

Alice Ping Yee Ho is a distinguished Chinese Canadian composer celebrated for her versatile, innovative, and deeply expressive body of work. Renowned for her eclectic musical language, she bridges opera, orchestral, chamber, dance, theatre, and electroacoustic music, creating works that blend Eastern and Western influences with originality and emotional depth.Her many honors include the 2024 Jules Léger Prize for New Chamber Music, the 2022 Symphony Nova Scotia Maria Anna Mozart Award, the 2022 Barlow Endowment Commissioning Award, the 2019 Johanna Metcalf Performing Arts Prize, and the 2013 Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding Original Opera for The Lesson of Da Ji. Additional distinctions include the Louis Applebaum Composers Award, the K.M. Hunter Artist Award, and the Luxembourg Sinfonietta International Composition Prize.