Fung Ho

Fung Ho
Violinist, Educator, Faculty of CSULA, LACHSA, and IIYM
Biography: 

Fung Ho, violinist, served as Concertmaster for the West L.A. Symphony Orchestra from 1992-2001 and was Concertmaster for the Burbank Chamber Orchestra (now Burbank Philharmonic Orchestra) from 1992-97.  He is the Music Director and Conductor of the Olympia Philharmonic Orchestra and the CalStateLA Symphony Orchestra/Olympia Youth Orchestra. He has also guest-conducted concerts held at University of Southern California (USC). World premieres of works by Darren Bloom, Hong Diep, Amanda Harberg, Dr. John M. Kennedy, Dr. Daniel Kessner, Frank Ezra Levy and Masatoshi Mitsumoto were also given to his credit in conducting different orchestras in venues such as the Walt Disney Concert Hall and Zipper Hall. Mr. Ho moved to Los Angeles in 1984 from New York City where he served as Concertmaster for both the Brooklyn Chamber and Queens Philharmonic Orchestras. He has also given solo and chamber music recitals in New York, Los Angeles, Vancouver and Minnesota.

Besides keeping a busy schedule performing, Mr. Ho also maintains a studio of young and talented students. Fung Ho was President of the Los Angeles Section of the American String Teachers Association (ASTA) and also served as President of the West San Gabriel Valley Branch of the Music Teachers Association of California (MTAC). Mr. Ho holds a Masters Degree of Music in Violin Performance from the Manhattan School of Music in New York where he studied with the late Carroll Glenn. Later on, in Los Angeles, he researched pedagogy and repertoire with the late Noumi Fischer.

Currently, Fung Ho is on the violin and orchestra faculty of Cal State Univ. Los Angeles (CSULA). He is also on the string and chamber music faculty of the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts (LACHSA). Mr. Ho has also served on the faculty of the International Institute for Young Musicians (IIYM) at KU Lawrence and UC Santa Barbara during the summers for 8 years.

In the summer of 2001, he was invited by the Music Office of the Hong Kong Government to be the guest conductor at the Hong Kong Youth Music Camp and a concert with the Hong Kong Youth String Orchestra was presented at the Hong Kong Cultural Centre on July 29, 2001, receiving critical acclaim. On March 8, 2008, under the direction of Mr. Ho, the Olympia Youth Orchestra performed in Walt Disney Concert Hall as a result of being selected as one of the Youth Orchestra Partners of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra. In the summer of 2013, Mr. Ho led a successful 5 city concert tour of a chamber orchestra comprised of members of the Olympia Youth Orchestra. In the Spring of 2016, Mr. Ho also led an elite group of students from the Olympia Youth Orchestra (Olympia Chamber Society) on a 4-concert tour in China and Hong Kong, well received by the local audiences.

Mr. Ho was invited to be one of the adjudicators at the 2nd and 3rd Hong Kong International Music Festival Music Competition in 2015 and 2016. He has also given masterclasses in the US as well as Hong Kong, China, Taiwan and Singapore. Many of his violin students have gone on to further their musical studies in music conservatories all over the country.