TING HO, Ph.D.

Professor
School of Music

 Ting Ho is a new music specialist, adjudicator and consultant for numerous community and educational arts organizations and schools. A New Jersey Distinguished Artist (1988), he has received composing grants and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, the American Music Center and Meet-the-Composer. He is the recipient of the Louis Lane Prize, and his works have been performed at Alice Tully Hall and Weill Recital Hall in New York City, and in concerts and new music festivals in the United States and Europe. Born in Chungking, China, he composed a two piano work that was featured in a Voice of America broadcast to the Orient. In 1991, Dr. Ho's composition Wild Geese Alighting was the required Chinese performance piece for children eight years old or younger at the Sixth Annual International Young Artist Piano Competition Featuring Chinese Music held in Washington, DC.

            Dr. Ho received his Ph.D. in music composition from the Eastman School of Music of the University of Rochester (NY). He is a senior member of the music faculty of the John J. Cali School of Music at Montclair State University, where he serves as Coordinator of Music Theory and Composition, and has taught numerous courses in such areas as music composition, theory and analysis, music history and literature, and performance practice on a number of instruments. He also serves as a music mentor in the Prior Learning Assessment program offered by Thomas Edison State College, a school where all students pursue coursework and college degrees entirely online.