Free Master Class with Grammy Award Winner Daniel Ho
Grammy Award winning musician, song writer and producer, Daniel Ho, to present a master class for Cal Poly Pomona’s Music Industry Studies program on Thursday, April 30, 2009 from 1:00-3:00pm in the Music Recital Hall. Free and open to the public.
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Press Release
Grammy Award winning musician, song writer and producer, Daniel Ho,
to present a master class for Cal Poly Pomona’s Music industry Studies program on Thursday, April 30, 2009
SPECIAL EVENT MASTER CLASS: Grammy Award winning musician, song writer and producer, Daniel Ho, to present a master classfor Cal Poly Pomona’s Music Industry Studies program on Thursday,April 30, 2009 from 1:00-3:00pm in the Music Recital Hall. Free and open to the public.
About Daniel Ho
From his simple beginnings in Honolulu to the hustle and bustle of Los Angeles, Daniel Ho has worked over the years as a musician, producer, singer/songwriter, arranger, composer, engineer, and record company owner. The most compelling of these roles has been as a four-time GRAMMY Award winning producer, featured slack key guitarist, and artist in the “Best Hawaiian Music Album” category.
Daniel’s musical inclinations were apparent at an early age. His first instruments were organ and ‘ukulele, from which he graduated to classical guitar, piano, electric guitar, bass, drums, and eventually, voice. His passion for music led him to study composing, arranging and film scoring at the Grove School of Music in Los Angeles. He began his professional career as the leader, keyboardist, composer, and producer for Kilauea, a contemporary jazz group he formed in 1990. By 1997, Kilauea had released six chart-topping albums, two of which hit the Top 10 on Billboard’s jazz charts.
As momentum of the smooth-jazz genre waned, Daniel set his sights on starting an independent record label. His interests in photography and graphic design complimented the requisite responsibilities of marketing and production. In 1998, he launched Daniel Ho Creations; that began as a vanity effort and consisted of his solo piano and Hawaiian slack key guitar recordings. Slowly, the releases grew into collaborative projects that featured himeni (Hawaiian hymnody), hula, ‘ukulele, and slack key guitar. To date, Daniel Ho Creations has released over fifty acoustic and Hawaiian-themed CDs by many of Hawai‘i’s most respected artists, who are first and foremost friends. Daniel has received numerous Hawaiian music industry accolades including three Na Hoku Hanohano awards and ten Hawai‘i Music Awards.
In recent years, Daniel has been able to remain true to his craft and focus on what he loves most: the music. He is an accomplished singer and songwriter who has shared his music as a soloist throughout the U.S., Japan, Germany, and even Tasmania. He has been featured with the Honolulu Symphony; toured as a keyboardist and guitarist for Grammy Award-winning vocalist, Peabo Bryson; guest-lectured at Stanford University; and authored instructional books on ‘ukulele and slack key guitar. On a behind-the-silverscreen note, he performed the Hawaiian-language cover of Prince’s “Nothing Compares 2 U” which can be heard during the end credits of the 2008 feature film, “Forgetting Sarah Marshall.” Daniel is a Yamaha guitar artist and plays KoAloha ‘ukuleles.
For more on Daniel Ho see his website at
http://www.danielho.com/html/bio.html and the
March 2007 Mix magazine interview at
http://mixonline.com/recording/projects/audio_daniel_ho/index.html
About the Music Industry Studies program
The rapidly-growing Music Industry Studies (MIS) program at Cal Poly Pomona currently comprises more than half of the Music department’s 230 undergraduate majors. The program’s wide-ranging curriculum provides students with a solid foundation in music theory, history, performance, production, recording technology, and business—as well as a well-rounded university education. MIS students tailor their studies to emphasize in music business, production or recording. Furthermore, in preparation for careers in music, all MIS students complete internships throughout the music industry.
For questions regarding the MIS program, please contact Prof. Arthur Winer at (909) 869-3412 or ahwiner@csupomona.edu. For questions regarding donations for MIS scholarships through the Cal Poly Pomona Foundation, please contact Lisa Nashua, CLASS Director of Development, at (909) 869-6848.
