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Yan-Ho Cheng,
Cello
鄭恩浩,
大提琴
A native from Hong Kong, Yan-Ho Cheng studied the cello under the tutelage of Ming-Yuen Cheung, Joliana Lai, Hiu-Lo Tung and later Prof. Ray Wang. He graduated from the Chinese University of Hong Kong with a Bachelor of Arts in Music and the Jacobs School of Music of Indiana University with a Master degree in Cello Performance under the guidance of Peter Stumpf. Yan Ho also worked as the assistant of Susan Moses at Indiana University String Academy and furthered his studies in quartet performance with Luc-Marie Aguera, Marc Danel, Ivan Chan and the Pacifica Quartet.
Yan Ho has performed extensively throughout his career as the founding cellist of Cong Quartet which won the Adolf Betti Award of the Virtuoso & Belcanto’s Chamber Music Competition 2022 in Italy, the Grand Prize in the 2019 Salzburg Mozart International Chamber Competition in Tokyo and the 2nd prize in the 2021 Kreutzer International Competition in Belgium. The Cong Quartet was the 2021-2022 Artist in Residence for the Master of Arts Programme of the Chinese University of Hong Kong , in which they also held the role of the Ensemble-in-Residence from 2019 to 2021. Yan Ho has recently toured with the quartet around Europe and the United States for a series of performances in New York, Staunton (Virginia), Lakeside Chautauqua (Ohio), Berlin, Lyon, Bourg-en-Bress, Flaine, Lucca, Cagliari and Utrecht. He has also performed with Andrej Bielow, Jorja Fleezanis, Eric Kim, Adrien La Marca, Antonio Lysy, Mai Motobuchi, Enrico Pace, Rachell Wong and members of Quatuor Danel among others.
Yan-Ho was a recipient of several scholarships including the C.C.Chiu Memorial Fund, a full scholarship for his masters studies, C.F. Hu Postgraduate Memorial Scholarship, China Soong Ching Ling Foundation “Gucci Timepieces and Jewelry Music Fund” Scholarship and Li Po Chun Charity Trust Fund. He was also a prize winner in the cello concerto competition in the Hong Kong School Music Festival.
在香港土生土長的大提琴家鄭恩浩，先後隨賴曉雯、董曉露、張明遠和王磊老師學習。早年曾在香港學校音樂節的大提琴協奏曲組得獎。畢業於喇沙書院和香港中文大學音樂系後，恩浩赴美深造，在印第安納大學積可斯音樂學院碩士畢業，師承前費城管弦樂團及洛杉磯愛樂大提琴首席彼得·斯頓夫和葛萊美獎得主布蘭登·華莫斯。及後，恩浩繼續於香港演藝學院及荷蘭四重奏學院深造四重奏演奏。
自2015年創立Cong四重奏，恩浩與四重奏曾在亞洲並歐美多個城市演出。近期的演出包括在東京、紐約、烏德勒支、法國和香港的演奏會，以及在里昂國立高等音樂學院、巴德學院、德克薩斯基督教大學和北德州大學等學校演出。Cong四重奏自2019年起是香港中文大學的駐校四重奏，並在2019年東京薩爾斯堡莫扎特室樂國際比賽中奪得冠軍和2021年比利時克羅采國際音樂大賽獲得亞軍。恩浩曾與多位世界著名的演奏家包括俄國中提琴大師巴舒米、博羅梅奧四重奏中提琴手元淵舞和前明尼蘇達管弦樂團首席費珍莉絲等演出。
恩浩亦是一位活躍的樂團樂手，在學期間是印第安納大學室樂團的助理大提琴首席。也曾參與伊凡斯維爾交響樂團、歐文斯伯勒交響樂團和香港小交響樂團的演出。另外恩浩亦熱衷於教學，在印第安納大學弦樂學院為前歐柏林音樂學院教授蘇珊·摩西絲擔任助教。恩浩曾獲得多個獎學金包括邱啟楨紀念基金，胡格非畢業生海外深造紀念獎學金，中國宋慶齡基金會 "古馳(腕表與珠寶)音樂基金"，中文大學文學院頒發李寶椿慈善信託基金。
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