Canadian violinist Boson Mo will take up the Texas-based role
The University of Houston’s Moores School of Music, based in Texas, has appointed Canadian violinist Boson Mo as its new affiliate artist in violin.
Originally from Montreal, Mo was the third prize winner of the 2013 Michael Hill International Violin Competition, and in 2015 was named one of Canada’s ‘30 un 30 Top Classical Musicians of 2015’ by CBC Radio-Canada. He also received the Prix Joseph-Rouleau at the 2010 Montreal International Violin Competition and won Canada’s Sylva Geber Foundation Award. Mo was a top 25 candidate in the International Tchaikovsky Competition, and also played in the Queen Elisabeth, Indianapolis and Singapore violin competitions.
Mo is a graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Music in Ohio, US, and Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music in Houston, Texas. He is also an alum of the Music@Menlo International Program, the Aspen Music Festival and School, the Perlman Music Program, the Masterclasses and Chamber Music Residency at Banff Centre, and other international programmes. His teachers include Paul Kantor and Keqiang Li.
The violinist is a member of the Houston Symphony and has served as acting assistant concertmaster of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, guest principal second at the Minnesota Orchestra, and guest concertmaster at both the Phoenix Symphony and the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. He toured Europe with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in 2022 and has performed as part of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
Mo has performed as a soloist with the Auckland Philharmonia, Orchestre symphonique de Longueuil, the Houston Symphony and has been featured at the Banff Centre for the Arts, Aspen Music Festival and School, Jeunesses Musicales du Canada, Montreal Chamber Music Festival, Vancouver Chamber Music Society, and others.
He has twice secured the Canada Council for the Arts’ Musical Instrument Bank loan, and he currently performs on a violin by MacArthur Genius Grant recipient Joseph Curtin.
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