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Violinist Frank Ho enjoys a career as soloist, chamber musician and teacher. A graduate of Yale University, he studied there with Sidney Harth (former concertmaster of the Chicago Symphony, New York and Los Angeles Philharmonics) and Erick Friedman (noted pupil of Jascha Heifetz). Further studies with Yfrah Neaman at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, England, led to performances on three continents and recordings for the CBC.
As a performer, Frank has performed at venues such as Royal Festival Hall (London), Merkin Hall and Alice Tully Hall (New York), and the Winspear Centre here in Edmonton. He remains active locally as the concertmaster of the Concordia Symphony Orchestra and as a frequent collaborator in chamber music. Recent highlights include the complete Beethoven Violin Sonata cycle with pianist Joachim Segger.
He is currently on faculty at the MacEwan University Conservatory of Music, King’s University and Concordia University. His students have been prizewinners in local, provincial, and national competitions in Canada, and have gone on to further studies at universities and conservatories in Canada, the USA and Europe. Several of his students have performed at venues such as Carnegie Hall, and are members of professional orchestras. Frank is also a member of the College of Examiners for the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, and was president of the Alberta String Association from 2019 to 2022.
Frank would like to thank Tan Violin Shop for the loan of an Italian violin by Iginius Sderci (1884-1983), made in 1938, which he will be using for this performance.
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Dr. Joachim Segger (BMus, MMus, Performer’s Certificate, Eastman School of Music; DMus UAlberta) is a versatile musician who performs regularly as a soloist and collaborative artist. Primary mentors and teachers were Ernesto Lejano, Cecile Genhart, Kurt Neumuller, Helmut Brauss and Menahem Pressler. As winner of the New York Canadian Women’s Club competition he performed a solo recital in Carnegie Recital Hall, NY. He recorded the Ravel G Major Piano Concerto with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra and performed numerous concertos with the ESO and the Edmonton Youth Orchestra. Joachim’s solo piano CD, entitled “Bravato”, includes works by Brahms, Mendelssohn, Ginastera, Haydn and Beethoven and was recorded on the wonderful nine-foot Yamaha concert grand once owned by Glenn Gould, now housed in Knoppers Hall at The King’s University.
Joachim regularly joins Marnie Giesbrecht as the internationally well-known Duo Majoya (Edmonton Cultural Hall of Fame, 2014; Honorary Fellows RCCO, 2015). Together they have commissioned and played more than twenty contemporary works for organ duet, piano duet and the unlikely but magnificent organ/piano combination. Joachim is well known in Canada for his piano and organ improvisations and workshops.
Dr. Segger is Professor Emeritus of the Music Department at The King's University, Edmonton and currently serving as Piano Professor at the University of Alberta.
Concert Sponsors: Heather & John Dolman in Memory of Pat & Phil Sturges