BIOGRAPHY

Taiwanese-American cellist Grace Ho is an active soloist and chamber musician in the United States and Asia.  Ms. Ho has appeared as soloist with the Vienna Ensemble, Xiamen Philharmonic Orchestra, Evergreen Symphony Orchestra, Sun Taipei Philharmonic, Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra, Ho Chi Minh City Symphony Orchestra, Lewisville Lake Symphony Orchestra, Kansas Wesleyan Orchestra, Manhattan School of Music Philharmonic Orchestra, University of North Texas Chamber Orchestra, and National Taiwan University Symphony Orchestra. Upcoming solo engagements include the Orquesta Filarmónica de Málaga in Spain and YinQi Symphony Orchestra in Taiwan.

        Ms. Ho has performed in Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall, Jordan Hall, Taiwan National Concert Hall, Harbin Grand Theater, Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City Opera House, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Naumburg Orchestral Concerts, National Gallery of Art in D.C., La Jolla Summerfest, Music Mountain, Buffalo Chamber Music Society, Syracuse Friends of Chamber Music, Friends of Chamber Music Kansas City, Westchester Chamber Music Society, Fundación Juan March in Madrid, Sociedad Filarmónica de Bilbao, Teatro Mayor Julio Santo Domingo in Bogotá, Premiere Performances Hong Kong, Kanagawa Kenmin Hall in Yokohama, Cemal Resit Rey Concert Hall in Istanbul, Sala Nezahualcoyotl in Mexico City, among others.
      A founding member of the Ulysses Quartet, who was named the first-ever Quartet in Residence for GBH in Boston in 2023 and continued the residency for two years. In 2019-2022, they served as the Graduate Resident String Quartet at the Juilliard School.They have won Grand Prize in the Vietnam International Music Competition in 2019, First Prize in the 2018 Schoenfeld International String Competition, Grand Prize and Gold Medal of the 2016 Fischoff Competition, 2nd Prize of the 9th Osaka International Chamber Music Competition, and First Prize of the 2017 American Prize. Recent performance highlights include Kammermusik Basel in Switzerland, Sociedad Filarmónica de Lima in Peru, Fundación Juan March in Madrid, Spain, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Chamber Music Society of Utica in New York, Louisiana State University and Ithaca College Visiting Residencies, ClassicAnd Festival in Andorra, and Edmonton Chamber Music in Canada. Ms. Ho also serves as Guest Principal Cellist in the Miami Symphony Orchestra.

       Ms. Ho received her Doctor of Musical Arts and Master degrees from the Manhattan School of Music, and her Bachelor degree from the University of North Texas. Former teachers include David Geber, Clive Greensmith, and Eugene Osadchy.

       In 2023 the Ulysses Quartet released three albums, “Shades of Romani Folklore” featuring works by Janacek, Beethoven, and Frucht; “Sea Change String Quartets'' by Grammy-nominated composer Joseph Summer; and “A Giant Beside You”, a collaborative album with guitar virtuoso Benjamin Verdery with music by Bryce Dessner, Javier Farias, Verdery’s arrangement of Leonard Bernstein’s Clarinet Sonata, and two works by Verdery for electric guitar and string quartet.