Growing up in a musical family, Singaporean musician Rachel Ho has the passion for performance art, education and using music as a tool to impact the community.

As a flute soloist, Rachel has performed with Musicians’ Initiative Orchestra and Red Dot Baroque. She also won 2nd prize at the YST Concerto Competition 2017 (Winds/Brass/Harp/Percussion category). Through the guidance of Wang Tong, Rachel was a member of the Singapore National Youth Orchestra from 2005 to 2016. She is now a freelance musician with Metropolitan Festival Orchestra and has performed with Orchestra of the Music Makers, Ricciotti Ensemble (The Netherlands), Sichuan Symphony Orchestra (China) and Hermes Wind Orchestra (Taiwan). She has also worked with notable conductors such as Charles Dutoit, Lan Shui, Masaaki Suzuki and Darrell Ang. As a chamber musician, Rachel is part of Red Dot Baroque – Singapore’s Early Music ensemble, and Flying Flutes flute quartet. Rachel is also a Festival Artist of the Music Society of Myanmar. She also represented Singapore to be a Festival Artist at the 10^th Asia Flutists Congress 2019 in Shanghai and was a jury member of the 3^rd Asia Flute Federation Junior Competition.

After being exposed to the field of community work when she was selected to participate in the New Audiences and Innovative Programme (NAIP) courses in Vienna and Iceland, Rachel has been passionate about sharing the joy of music with the wider community. She has curated several performances and creative music workshops in Asia, Europe and United States at hospitals, dementia homes, refugee camps and centers for children such as Alexandra Hospital, Singapore Association of the Visually Handicapped, kidsphilharmonic@sg, Superhero Me, Singapore Girls’ Home, Believe in Tomorrow Children’s Home. Rachel was heavily involved in facilitating music and dementia “Music for Life” workshops at WoonZorgcentra Haaglanden (Residential Care Home for Dementia Patients) in partnership with De Haagse Muziekcentrale and Royal Conservatory of The Hague in the Netherlands. Rachel also participated in the Training Music Leaders with refugees course by Musician Without Borders in Germany. In October 2019, she was invited to present at the YST Performers(’) Present International Artistic Research Symposium “Telling Stories” on her community project titled “A Golden Tale” – an inter-generational creative music-making project where the elderly, children and musicians come together to create a musical piece based on the elderly’s life story.