The AMEF Recognition Award is presented yearly at Music Conference Alberta. This prestigious award was established to recognize music educators (kindergarten through college, in private and public schools and studio teachers) who have made a significant and lasting contribution to the field of music education in Alberta.

Colleagues, students, friends or other community members are encouraged to make a submission to recognize a deserving individual that has pursued excellence in music education in any genre.

Violinist FRANK HO enjoys a career as soloist, chamber musician and teacher. A graduate of Yale University, he studied there with Sidney Harth (former concertmaster of the Chicago Symphony, New York and Los Angeles Philharmonics) and Erick Friedman (noted pupil of Jascha Heifetz). Further studies with Yfrah Neaman at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, England, led to performances on three continents and recordings for the CBC. He also holds a Master of Musical Arts degree from the University of Alberta, where he specialized in historical and theoretical studies in musicology.

As a performer, Frank has performed at venues such as Royal Festival Hall (London), Merkin Hall and Alice Tully Hall (New York), and the Winspear Centre in Edmonton. He remains active in his hometown of Edmonton as the concertmaster of the Concordia Symphony Orchestra and as a frequent collaborator in chamber music, most notably with the late pianist Alexandra Munn. Recent highlights include the complete Beethoven Violin Sonata cycle with pianist Joachim Segger. Current projects include the complete solo and accompanied violin music by J. S. Bach (with pianist/harpsichordist Leanne Regehr) and a CD of music for two violins and viola with Vaughan String Quartet members Vladimir Rufino and Fabiola Amorim. In the summer of 2024, he toured Switzerland, Austria, Liechtenstein, and Italy as a violinist of the Canadian Landscapes Europe Tour, organized through Concordia University.

He is currently on faculty at Conservatory of Music at the Winspear Centre, The King’s University and Concordia University of Edmonton. His students have been prizewinners in local, provincial, and national competitions in Canada, and have gone on to further studies at universities and conservatories in Canada, the USA and Europe. Several of his students have performed at venues such as Carnegie Hall, and are members of professional orchestras in Canada, notably the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa, the Victoria Symphony, and the Thunder Bay Symphony. Frank is also a member of the College of Examiners for the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, and was president of the Alberta String Association from 2019 to 2022.