About Dr. Kho:

Ryan Kho is the concertmaster of the Augusta Symphony, and has studied with such violin notables as Dorothy Delay, Paul Kantor, Tibor Vaghy, and Thomas Wang. He received a full scholarship to attend the New England Conservatory of Music, and upon graduation Mr. Kho made his New York debut at Carnegie Hall as guest artist with Boston Musica Viva. Since then he has held positions of Concertmaster and Principal Second Violin in professional orchestras in Canada , the United States and Hong Kong . While holding these key positions, he has worked under many world-class conductors including Charles Dutoit, Pierre Boulez, Simon Streatfield, Leon Fleisher, and Klaus Tennestedt. Most recently he was Guest Concertmaster of the Hong Kong Sinfonietta and traveled with them on their first tour of France .

Mr. Kho has also held conducting positions with orchestras at Dalhousie University ( Canada ), Augusta State University and at the Summer Workshop Program of University of Georgia. He has also guest conducted the Georgia Southern University orchestra.

His solo performances have taken him worldwide from Symphony Nova Scotia ( Canada ), Montreal , Arizona , Pennsylvania , Georgia , to Hong Kong . He is also very active as chamber musician, performing with such notables as Walter Trampler, Malcolm Lowe, Gary Hoffman, Charles Wadsworth, and Colin Carr, with concerts broadcast on CBC Radio Canada , WQXR ( New York ), and NPR Radio. Mr. Kho's teaching positions include Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia , University of Georgia at Athens , and presently, University of South Carolina in Columbia and at Georgia Southern University, where he is in residence as first violinist of the Magellan String Quartet. Mr. Kho spends his summers in New Hampshire performing with the New Hampshire Music Festival.

He plays on a 1670 Andrea Guarnerius with a reparation top made by JB Guadagnini
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