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Tze Yeung Ho (b. 1992) is a Norwegian composer.
He is an organiser and founder of the OSLOFONI project and a board member of the Periferien - nyMusikk Oslo concert series. He is also currently an Endringsagent (Impact Agent) for Music Norway, a vice board member in INN and a member of the ECCO working group in ECSA (European Composers and Songwriters' Alliance). Tze Yeung chaired the Norwegian chapter of the UNM (Ung Nordisk Musikk) festival between 2018 and 2021. Tze Yeung is also a selected participant of Nordic Noise, an inter-Nordic art collective in curatorial practices.
Tze Yeung's music is created at the crossroads of understanding, reflecting his multilingual upbringing. His works explore the territories of speech, translation in language, dramaturgy and poetics. Working with Scandinavian, Finno-Ugric and Chinese poetry and prose, his music treads on the fragile landscapes of (mis)communication through (un)spoken words. Close collaboration with living writers, storytellers and word-based artists is integral to his practice. His creations usually result in some form of music theatre.
Tze Yeung holds a doctoral degree (PhD) from the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre and a master's degree from the Norwegian Academy of Music. He has been a visiting student in the phonetics department at the University of Helsinki and has held lectures and talks at the Estonian Arts Academy, Mahidol University (Thailand), Sibelius Academy (Finland), SOUND 59 festival (Russia) and the highSCORE festival (Italy).
Tze Yeung is the first prize recipient of the 14th composition competition of Festival International de Musiques Sacrées (CH), Evivakören's and Exaudio's choral composition competition (FI) and Land's End Ensemble's 17th annual composition competition (CA). His collaboration with writer Linda Gabrielsen, hvorfor pusen? received the second prize of Shanghai New Music Week's Chamber Opera Composition Competition. He is a finalist for the pan-European composition competition DYCE in 2022. Tze Yeung is a third prize recipient of New Music Generation 2022 Composition Competition by the Kazakh National University of Arts. Tze Yeung is also a recipient of the national artist grant from the Arts Council of Norway and a stipend recipient of the Fergesten Foundation.
Some highlighted artistic activities include his participation in the KUPP 2.0 program, his artist residency at the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Berlin, his participation as a resident artist in the PRAKSIS interdisciplinary arts program developed in Oslo, lecturing at Sound 59 festival in Russia, collaboration with Heidi Dahlsveen in the project 23.27 at the Fortellerfestival 2017 (Norwegian Storytelling Festival), the creation of Gjennom Garden (a theatre work for Sølvguttene boys' choir and percussionist Eirik Raude with Norwegian dramaturge Marius Kolbenstvedt) and his production of the opera minn(i)e. Tze Yeung has worked with an array of performers and artists in different facets, including Sine Nomine string quartet (CH), Teodoro Anzellotti (DE/IT), the NyNorsk messingkvintett (NO), NeoQuartet (PL), Exaudio and Evivakören (FI), [instead] ensemble (RU), Fie Schouten (NL), Elisabeth Hetherington (NL/CA), Matti Pulkki (FI), Tacet(i) Ensemble (TL), Caroline Hausen (DE), Avanti! Chamber Orchestra (FI), MolOt Ensemble (RU), Ligeti Quartet (UK), Ukho Ensemble (UA), Orkest de ereprijs (NL), Rolston Quartet (CA), Thirty Fingers Trio (LT), Jürg Henneberger (CH), Honghong Zheng (NO/CN), Decho Ensemble (US), Michael Bridge (CA) and so forth. His music has been featured at the ISCM World Music Days Festival/Estonian Music Days 2019 in Tallinn.
A selection of Tze Yeung's scores are available at NB Noter, the new music publications of the Norwegian National Archives, Babelscores and as well at the Canadian Music Centre.
Tze Yeung has represented Norway in the UNM (Ung Nordisk Musikk) festivals of 2015, 2018, 2021 and 2022 held in Helsinki, Bergen, Aarhus and Reykjavík respectively. In the 2015 edition, his saxophone concerto 'ingest thrice, as prescribed;' received its premiere by the Avanti! Chamber Orchestra (FI). In 2018, his chamber operetta in collaboration with writer Linda Gabrielsen, jeg gir faen i magnoliaen? was performed in Bergen. His chamber opera 'hvorfor pusen?' in collaboration with Linda Gabrielsen received its Danish premiere by Thórgunnur Anna Örnólfsdóttir, Johanna Maria Nylund, Richard Låås and Århus Sinfonietta (DK) under the baton of Tom Goff in 2021. The festival holds a special place in Tze Yeung's heart. He sees this Nordic collaboration as an important cornerstone in promoting dialogue across borders and in giving composers a positive social platform.
Tze Yeung is an associate artist of:
Relatable to many second generation Hong Kong immigrants in Europe, Tze Yeung spent a significant part of his childhood in the corner of his family's Chinese restaurant. In the far north of Norway, his parents supplied him with a television, a VCR player accompanied by tapes of Moomin dubbed in either Cantonese or Norwegian, an improvised bed consisting of three restaurant chairs (which were taken away and into use when there were too many customers) and a little shelf with books and toys.
Tze Yeung spent his teenage years in suburban Toronto, a factor which contributes to his immense disdain for poor urban planning and communities of cookie-cutter houses.
Updated: 17.11.2022
He is an organiser and founder of the OSLOFONI project and a board member of the Periferien - nyMusikk Oslo concert series. He is also currently an Endringsagent (Impact Agent) for Music Norway, a vice board member in INN and a member of the ECCO working group in ECSA (European Composers and Songwriters' Alliance). Tze Yeung chaired the Norwegian chapter of the UNM (Ung Nordisk Musikk) festival between 2018 and 2021. Tze Yeung is also a selected participant of Nordic Noise, an inter-Nordic art collective in curatorial practices.
Tze Yeung's music is created at the crossroads of understanding, reflecting his multilingual upbringing. His works explore the territories of speech, translation in language, dramaturgy and poetics. Working with Scandinavian, Finno-Ugric and Chinese poetry and prose, his music treads on the fragile landscapes of (mis)communication through (un)spoken words. Close collaboration with living writers, storytellers and word-based artists is integral to his practice. His creations usually result in some form of music theatre.
Tze Yeung holds a doctoral degree (PhD) from the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre and a master's degree from the Norwegian Academy of Music. He has been a visiting student in the phonetics department at the University of Helsinki and has held lectures and talks at the Estonian Arts Academy, Mahidol University (Thailand), Sibelius Academy (Finland), SOUND 59 festival (Russia) and the highSCORE festival (Italy).
Tze Yeung is the first prize recipient of the 14th composition competition of Festival International de Musiques Sacrées (CH), Evivakören's and Exaudio's choral composition competition (FI) and Land's End Ensemble's 17th annual composition competition (CA). His collaboration with writer Linda Gabrielsen, hvorfor pusen? received the second prize of Shanghai New Music Week's Chamber Opera Composition Competition. He is a finalist for the pan-European composition competition DYCE in 2022. Tze Yeung is a third prize recipient of New Music Generation 2022 Composition Competition by the Kazakh National University of Arts. Tze Yeung is also a recipient of the national artist grant from the Arts Council of Norway and a stipend recipient of the Fergesten Foundation.
Some highlighted artistic activities include his participation in the KUPP 2.0 program, his artist residency at the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Berlin, his participation as a resident artist in the PRAKSIS interdisciplinary arts program developed in Oslo, lecturing at Sound 59 festival in Russia, collaboration with Heidi Dahlsveen in the project 23.27 at the Fortellerfestival 2017 (Norwegian Storytelling Festival), the creation of Gjennom Garden (a theatre work for Sølvguttene boys' choir and percussionist Eirik Raude with Norwegian dramaturge Marius Kolbenstvedt) and his production of the opera minn(i)e. Tze Yeung has worked with an array of performers and artists in different facets, including Sine Nomine string quartet (CH), Teodoro Anzellotti (DE/IT), the NyNorsk messingkvintett (NO), NeoQuartet (PL), Exaudio and Evivakören (FI), [instead] ensemble (RU), Fie Schouten (NL), Elisabeth Hetherington (NL/CA), Matti Pulkki (FI), Tacet(i) Ensemble (TL), Caroline Hausen (DE), Avanti! Chamber Orchestra (FI), MolOt Ensemble (RU), Ligeti Quartet (UK), Ukho Ensemble (UA), Orkest de ereprijs (NL), Rolston Quartet (CA), Thirty Fingers Trio (LT), Jürg Henneberger (CH), Honghong Zheng (NO/CN), Decho Ensemble (US), Michael Bridge (CA) and so forth. His music has been featured at the ISCM World Music Days Festival/Estonian Music Days 2019 in Tallinn.
A selection of Tze Yeung's scores are available at NB Noter, the new music publications of the Norwegian National Archives, Babelscores and as well at the Canadian Music Centre.
Tze Yeung has represented Norway in the UNM (Ung Nordisk Musikk) festivals of 2015, 2018, 2021 and 2022 held in Helsinki, Bergen, Aarhus and Reykjavík respectively. In the 2015 edition, his saxophone concerto 'ingest thrice, as prescribed;' received its premiere by the Avanti! Chamber Orchestra (FI). In 2018, his chamber operetta in collaboration with writer Linda Gabrielsen, jeg gir faen i magnoliaen? was performed in Bergen. His chamber opera 'hvorfor pusen?' in collaboration with Linda Gabrielsen received its Danish premiere by Thórgunnur Anna Örnólfsdóttir, Johanna Maria Nylund, Richard Låås and Århus Sinfonietta (DK) under the baton of Tom Goff in 2021. The festival holds a special place in Tze Yeung's heart. He sees this Nordic collaboration as an important cornerstone in promoting dialogue across borders and in giving composers a positive social platform.
Tze Yeung is an associate artist of:
- The Norwegian Society of Composers
- The Finnish Society of Composers
- nyMusikks Composers' Group
- Canadian Music Centre
- Hong Kong Composers' Guild
- Catalysti
Relatable to many second generation Hong Kong immigrants in Europe, Tze Yeung spent a significant part of his childhood in the corner of his family's Chinese restaurant. In the far north of Norway, his parents supplied him with a television, a VCR player accompanied by tapes of Moomin dubbed in either Cantonese or Norwegian, an improvised bed consisting of three restaurant chairs (which were taken away and into use when there were too many customers) and a little shelf with books and toys.
Tze Yeung spent his teenage years in suburban Toronto, a factor which contributes to his immense disdain for poor urban planning and communities of cookie-cutter houses.
Updated: 17.11.2022
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