Jeffrey Ho, cello

Jeffrey Ho is a cellist from Santa Monica, California. Blending performance and pedagogy, Jeffrey performs and teaches around the southern California region, regularly appearing with the San Diego Symphony and Pacific Symphony. He teaches chamber music at the Crossroads School and the Colburn Community School. Jeffrey has appeared at Yellowbarn, Perlman Music Program, Lake Champlain Music Festival, Tanglewood Music Center, and Lunenburg Academy of Music Program, and was an Equilibrium Artist Fellow under Barbara Hanigan’s mentorship in 2023 and a Piatigorsky International Festival Fellow at USC in 2016.

Jeffrey earned his Bachelor of Arts at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. He subsequently attended USC Thornton School of Music, and the New England Conservatory of Music. His principal teachers were Antonio Lysy, Ralph Kirshbaum, Lluis Claret and Blaise Dejardin. He is currently pursuing a Doctorate of Musical Arts from the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music with Ben Hong.