NEWS
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Features and Interviews
“Ho & Niemetz: Women of a Modern Artistic Era, Or, How Two Women Brought Technology Into Their Craft,” Entropy, July 12, 2019. View
Noize magazine #95, interview and press coverage of selected NIME papers in Porto Alegro, Brasil, 2019. View
“Multisensory piano concert makes West Coast premiere on UCLA grounds” Daily Bruin, Feb 28, 2017. View
“Brookmarks: Creative Acts,” Stony Brook University Magazine, October 2021. View
Keynote: Please Welcome. Limelight April 2011. View
REVIEWS
2MBS Fine Music Magazine April 2011:
“Anyone attracted to the repertoire on this CD [Luminous Sounds] will find it richly rewarding… Jocelyn Ho gives a highly dramatic performance of [Rzewski’s Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues]. Her Haydn is appropriately classical and humorous, her Mendelssohn suitably romantic and melodious, she draws unbelievably beautiful sonorities from the piano in the Debussy and is fully capable of meeting the technical demands of the Prokofiev Sonata.” (5-Star Review)
The Australian, 15 September 2008:
“Ho, 26, a student of Gerard Willems, is a consistent performer with precise rhythmic execution and a surprisingly unrelenting physical technique…”
Classikon, 25 January 2015 (Sydney Piano Trio):
“Our city is fortunate to have the Sydney Piano Trio. It is clear that this is an ensemble of the highest technical standard and that they bring a real excitement to the stage.”
Award Announcements for Publication Awards
Society for Music Theory Newsletter, Vol. 46 No. 1 February 2023:
“… an article that brings rich insight into the mutually productive intersections of analysis and performance. A highly detailed engagement with Takemitsu’s Rain Tree Sketch II is the opportunity to lay out an entire program and methodology for investigating the ways in which bodily gestures and tensions co-create an understanding of the piece. Drawing upon Carrie Noland’s “vitality effects,” Husserl’s notions of retention and protention, and a representational method dubbed “enhanced trace forms” (derived from Laban Movement Analysis), the author blends video with compelling visual depictions to move beyond traditional score-based analysis. Deeply rooted also in Takemitsu’s aesthetics, and absorbingly and evocatively written, the article is a model of performer-scholar synthesis. This emerging scholar award goes to Jocelyn Ho, for her article “Corporeal Musical Structure: A Gestural-Kinesthetic Approach to Tōru Takemitsu’s Rain Tree Sketch II,” published in Music Theory Online.”
SMT Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group, 2022 Publication Award Winner:
“Drawing on literature from performance studies, phenomenology, and Laban dance theory, Ho foregrounds the performing body and asks incisive questions about what it can tell us about musical structure.”