Ms Tisa Ho, Executive Director, Hong Kong Arts Festival

 

Tisa Ho, Executive Director of the Hong Kong Arts Festival. Having grown up in Hong Kong, she relocated to Singapore in 1984, where her arts portfolios cover policy and infrastructure development, including brief development for Singapore’s Esplanade, marketing and curatorial responsibilities for the 1988 and 1990 Singapore Arts Festivals, and managing the Singapore Symphony Orchestra (as General Manager) between 1991 and 1999. During her tenure at the Hong Kong Arts Festival since 2006, the Festival has presented large scale international productions such as Zingaro’s Battuta from France and Power Plant from the UK; embarked on programmes of exploring new, unconventional venues; and produced and presented new local works.