Royal Academy of Music, YMF 2003
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Sun Roh (violin) has performed widely in Korea, Australia, and England in such venues as the Sydney Opera House, Sydney Town Hall, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australian Government House, and St. Pauls Cathedral. She made her debut at the age of eleven performing Mozart's fourth violin concerto with the Greenpeace Chamber Orchestra under Kenneth Kiesler at the Soo-Won Arts Concert Hall in Seoul, Korea. Her success as a winner of the National Concerto Competition in Queensland, and of the Kurringhai Philharmonic Orchestra Concerto Competition led to performances of Prokofiev's Second Violin Concerto and the Sibelius Violin Concerto, which she also later performed in Mittagong with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. She has also won Second Prize at the Gisbourne International Music Competition in New Zealand.
Sun has performed for the President of Italy and the Prime Minister of Australia, and was chosen to participate in an exclusive masterclass for the late Lord Yehudi Menuhin. Her performances have been broadcast on Australia Classical FM and 2MBS FM. She was awarded the prestigious Big Brother Scholarship, and also a full scholarship at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where she now studies.
Antero Manocchi (cello) was born in 1978 in Bern, Switzerland and began to play the cello at the age of nine. In 1996 he commenced his studies with Peter Horr in Bern. He graduated from there in 2001 and continued his studies in the concert class. Since September 2002 he has studied as a postgraduate student with Mats Lidstrom at the Royal Academy of Music.
He won several prizes at Swiss competitions, including a prize at the Kiefer Hablitzel-Stiftung competition last year. He performed in concerts in Switzerland, Germany, Italy, Poland and San Francisco. In 1998 he toured through Germany as member of the string ensemble 'Petit Symphony'.
He has taken part in masterclasses with Wolfgang Boettcher, Peter Horr, Pieter Wispelwey, Robert Cohen, Thomas Kakuska and Walter Levin.
Ying Ho (piano) is a final year undergraduate at the Royal Academy of Music, London. A full scholarship holder, she studies there with Professor Tatiana Sarkissova. Prior to London, Ying lived in Sydney, Australia where she has won numerous awards and performed extensively.
Winner of the second Kawai Australasian Youth Piano Competition, she performed Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No.1 with the Western Australian Youth Orchestra in Perth as part of the National Piano Pedagogy Conference. In the same year she was also a finalist in the Yamaha Youth Piano Competition, the ABC Young Performers Award and the John Allison Piano Scholarship.
In 1999 Ying was awarded the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music International Scholarship for four years.
Ying has performed in many of the major concert venues in Australia, amongst them the Sydney Opera House, the Government House, and the Great Hall at the University of Sydney. Concerto experiences include Mendelssohn's Piano Concerto no. 1 with the Kuringai Philharmonic Orchestra, Saint-Saens' Carnival of the Animals with the Sydney Youth Orchestra at the Powerhouse Museum, as well as Mozart's Concerto for Two Pianos and Beethoven's Triple Concerto with the Sydney Conservatorium Orchestra. Also a frequent chamber musician, she regularly performs with singers and other instrumentalists.