Kallie Ho Ching-wai is a composer, singer-songwriter, and interdisciplinary artist based in Hong Kong. She is currently pursuing a Bachelor of Music degree in Composition and Electronic Music at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (HKAPA), studying with Ms Kar-yee Li. Her work spans contemporary chamber and orchestral music, a cappella, pop songs, and film scores, and she increasingly explores interdisciplinary collaboration to create new music-theatre experiences.

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In 2026, she premiered her multimedia work "fine line" in collaboration with 2 dancers and 4 musicians in the Drama Theatre at HKAPA on April 11. Her commissioned solo violin piece with electronics "Another Imagery of Time" dedicated to violinist, Emily Lam, will also be premiere in her Graduation Recital on May 20 this year.

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Since 2024, Ho has led the multimedia project “White/out". Combining music, theatre, body movement, and sound installation, this production investigates how loss, fragmented recollection, and the reconstruction of memory can be experienced collectively in the setting of exhibition and performance. The work was presented at Oil Street Art Space in November 2025, running for four days and welcoming a total audience of 705. In September 2025, she collaborated with the Wuji Ensemble under the mentorship of composer Law Wing-fai, a mixed-ensemble work, Floating Reverie, premiered in the Drama Theatre at HKAPA, where she explored the dialogue between traditional Eastern and contemporary Western sounds. In summer 2025, she co-composed the teenage musical “The Rocket…Bam!,” which received five performances featuring 24 young performers under the age of 20. This musical will be performed again in HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity in August 2026.

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​Ho’s concert works have been recognised in major regional forums. In 2026, her mixed ensemble piece inspired by a Chinese opera classic, “As the pear blossoms fall…” is selected to be presented in the 72nd International Rostrum of Composers to be held in Riga, Latvia. Early in 2025, her saxophone quartet “gibberish” was selected as a finalist in the Asian Composers’ League 2025 Young Composers Competition, representing Hong Kong, and she was also a finalist in the New Generation 2024 competition organized by the Hong Kong Composers’ Guild. Her music has been featured on RTHK Radio 4 and performed at venues including Kwai Tsing Theatre, Hong Kong Palace Museum, Oil Street Art Space, and Viva Blue House in Hong Kong, as well as Kawasaki Hall in Japan and Brevard Music Center in the United States.

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Her training is supported by scholarships such as the Society of APA Merit Awards for Local Students, School's Outstanding Student Awards, the Grantham Scholarship, and the HKAPA Recruitment & Outstanding Scholarships. Ho’s studies extend overseas through active participation in international music festivals including Mixtur Festival 2025 in Barcelona, where she studied with Manos Tsangaris and Raquel García-Tomás, focusing on music theatre and contemporary opera; Brevard Music Center Summer Festival 2024 in the United States as a Fromm Music Foundation Fellow, studying with Greg Simon and David Dzubay; and Takefu International Music Festival 2023 in Japan, working with Naoki Sakata and Hristina Šušak. She has also taken part in masterclasses with Frankie Ho and Uzong Choe (2025), Samson Young and Chen Xiaoyong (2024).

 

Within the Young Composer Workshop of Young Friends of the Hong Kong Arts Festival 2025, her percussion work was chosen for a masterclass with Li Biao and The Philharmonic Percussion Group of Berlin and will be performed in Berlin in 2026. In 2025, Ho was named runner-up in the Toolbox Percussion International Composition Collaborative.

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Ho’s community work includes composing for the “Every Life Is a Song” projects in 2018/19 and 2023/24, dedicated to the Wan Chai community and local craftspeople. She is one of the film-scoring composers for the HKAPA School of Film & Television 2022/23 graduation films Unusual Collection and Follow Tide, and received the Original Film Music Outstanding Jury Recommendation Award 2022 from the Hong Kong Film Composers’ Association.