A recipient of the HKSAR Government Scholarship and the Talent Development Scheme Scholarship, Hong Kong born pianist Shun Yin Ho started studying at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts at the age of nine as a Junior student with Professor Julie Kuok and Gabriel Kwok. In 2017, Shun Yin graduated from the Academy with First Class Honours and is currently pursuing her Master’s Degree at the Royal Academy of Music under the tutelage of Tatiana Sarkissova with a full scholarship support from The Muriel, Lady Kadoorie Music Scholarship and an RAM Entrance Award, the WH and George Myddleton Scholarship.
Over the past years, HO has gained success and won prizes in several competitions including the Betty Drown Memorial Prize, Tom Lee Scholarship and the Gold Medal Award in the Hong Kong Schools Music Festival; Kawai Asia Piano Competition and Asian Youth Music Competition. A second prize winner in the 2018 Livorno Piano Competition in Italy, Ho also won the Gold Prize as well as the Soloist Award in the 15th International Chopin Piano Competition in Asia held in Japan whilst being the youngest competitor in the category. She was also awarded the Lady Fung Music Fellowship made possible by the Asian Cultural Council to participate in the 2015 season of the Aspen Music Festival and School, where she studied under luminaries of classical music including Professor Hung-Kuan Chen of the Juilliard School.
Being one of the Young Artists from Musicus Inspires, Shun Yin performs regularly and has performed as soloist with the Pan Asia Orchestra, the Hong Kong Chamber Orchestra, Hong Kong Youth Symphony Orchestra and the Belilios Public School Symphony Orchestra. Apart from working with renowned pianists in masterclasses including Gary Graffman, Christopher Elton, Aqulies Delle Vigne and Tamas Ungar, she has also collaborated and performed onstage with artists Mr. Dong-suk Kang and Mr. Vladimir Mendelssohn in Musicus Fest.
