Tze Yeung Ho (b. 1992) is a Norwegian composer based in Helsinki. He is an organiser and founder of the OSLOFONI project and a board member of the ​Periferien - nyMusikk Oslo concert series. Tze Yeung was the former chairman of the Norwegian chapter of the UNM (Ung Nordisk Musikk) festival.

​Tze Yeung's music is found at the crossroads of understanding. His works explore territories of speech, translation in language, dramaturgy and poetics, with particular focus on multilingual approaches. Working exclusively with Scandinavian, Finno-Ugric and Chinese poetry and prose, his music explores the fragile landscapes of (mis)communication through (un)spoken words. Close collaboration with living writers, storytellers and word-based artists is central to his practice.

Tze Yeung holds a doctoral degree (PhD) from the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre and a master's degree from the Norwegian Academy of Music. He has been a visiting student in the phonetics department at the University of Helsinki and has held lectures and talks at the Estonian Arts Academy, Mahidol University (Thailand), Sibelius Academy, SOUND 59 festival (Russia) and the highSCORE festival (Italy).

Tze Yeung is the first prize recipient of the 14th composition competition of Festival International de Musiques Sacrées (CH), Evivakören's and Exaudio's choral composition competition (FI) and Land's End Ensemble's 17th annual composition competition (CA). His collaboration with writer Linda Gabrielsen, hvorfor pusen? received the second prize of Shanghai New Music Week's Chamber Opera Composition Competition.

Some other highlighted artistic activities include his participation in the KUPP 2.0 program, his participation as a resident artist in the PRAKSIS interdisciplinary arts program developed in Oslo, lecturing at Sound 59 festival in Russia, collaboration with Heidi Dahlsveen in the project 23.27 at the Fortellerfestival 2017 (Norwegian Storytelling Festival), the creation of Gjennom Garden (a theatre work for Sølvguttene boys' choir and percussionist Eirik Raude with Norwegian dramaturge Marius Kolbenstvedt) and his production of the opera minn(i)e. Tze Yeung has worked with an array of performers and artists in different facets, including the NyNorsk messingkvintett (NO), NeoQuartet (PL), Exaudio and Evivakören (FI), [instead] ensemble (RU), Fie Schouten (NL), Elisabeth Hetherington (NL/CA), Matti Pulkki (FI), Tacet(i) Ensemble (TL), Caroline Hausen (DE), Avanti! Chamber Orchestra (FI), MolOt Ensemble (RU), Ligeti Quartet (UK), Ukho Ensemble (UA), Orkest de ereprijs (NL), Rolston Quartet (CA), Heidi Dahlsveen (NO), Thirty Fingers Trio (LT), Jürg Henneberger (CH), Honghong Zheng (NO/CN), Decho Ensemble (US), Michael Bridge (CA) and so forth. His music has been featured at the ISCM World Music Days Festival/Estonian Music Days 2019 in Tallinn.

​His former mentors include Trond Reinholdtsen (NO), Gary Kulesha (CA), Lars Petter Hagen (NO), Helena Tulve (EE), Toivo Tulev (EE), Asbjørn Schaathun (NO), Maja S. K. Ratkje (NO), Rune Rebne (NO) and Alexander Weinstangel (CA/HR).

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Relatable to many second generation Hong Kong immigrants in Europe, Tze Yeung spent a significant part of his childhood in the corner of his family's Chinese restaurant. In the far north of Norway, his parents supplied him with a television, a VCR player accompanied by tapes of Moomin dubbed in either Cantonese or Norwegian, an improvised bed consisting of three restaurant chairs (which were taken away and into use when there were too many customers) and a little shelf with books and toys.
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