Dr. Ho Chee Kong is Associate Professor and was one of the founding faculty members and Head of Composition at the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music, National University of Singapore. His international commissions and works for both Western and Chinese ensembles have been performed at festivals and concerts in Asia, Australia, New Zealand, the United States, Canada and and Europe.
In 2012, the National Arts Council commissioned Passage-Fantasy for Cello and Orchestra for the Singapore Arts Festival 2012. An arrangement of this work for the Singapore Chinese Orchestra was performed at the Asian Composers League Festival and Conference in 2013. Other commissioned works include Tembusu Evenings, Of Passion and Passages and Shades of Oil Lamp. In celebration of Singapore’s National Day, he wrote The Way of Play. A choral work, Night, dedicated to the heroic men and women who fought hard to stem the devastation of SARS in 2003, was published in Spice, Magic, and Mystique, as part of a collection of the Southeast Asian Choral Repertoire.<