It was with great sadness that we heard that Emily Hoh died on 4 December 2024 at the Princess Alice Hospice in Esher, aged 27. Emily became a Samling Artist in 2023 when she joined us for a week-long residency working with Sir Mark Elder, Patricia MacMahon, Jonathan Ware and Scott Brooksbank. She returned to us in October 2023 to work with our Academy Singers. She will be greatly missed by all of us at Samling who had the privilege of knowing her and our thoughts are with her family and friends.
Biography
Swedish-Taiwanese pianist Emily Hoh graduated from the Royal College of Music in 2022 with distinction, studying an MPerf in collaborative piano under Simon Lepper, Roger Vignoles, and Kathron Sturrock. She accompanied several prize-winners of vocal competitions and was awarded the pianist prizes at the RCM’s annual Lieder competition and Brooks van der Pump 2022 English Song Competition. She has taken part in collaborative piano masterclasses with Lydia Brown (The Juilliard School) on American Song and with Mark Padmore on Dichterliebe as part of the Lewes Song Festival.
In 2023 she won the Royal Over-seas League Award for Collaborative Pianists and the first pianist prize at the inaugural Ashburnam English Song competition. She was a Britten-Pears Young Artist, a SongEasel Young Artist, with recent performance venues including Oxford International Song Festival, the Princess Alexandria Hall at the Royal Overseas League, Wigmore Hall, and Snape Maltings in the 2024 Aldeburgh Festival. She was accompanist-in-residence at Westminster School and accompanied regularly at the Royal College of Music.
Prior to her music studies, Emily read BSc Psychology at University College London where she graduated with first-class honours. Her dissertation, which investigated retrospective evaluations of musical experiences, was published in 2022 by the journal of Psychology, Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts.
