About.
Jennifer Hou is an Australian solo and collaborative pianist. She has established herself as a versatile performer who is as virtuosic as she is deeply communicative, engaging audiences with programs that span classical conerstones to modern works.
Jennifer Hou is a solo and collaborative pianist with an avid interest in contemporary repertory. She has concertised at venues such as the Sydney Opera House, Town Hall, NSW Parliament House, Steinway Hall (NYC) and over live Australian broadcast on 2MBS Fine Music 102.5. She made her concerto debut with the North Sydney Symphony Orchestra (2018). Jennifer is an alumni of the Rebecca Penneys Piano Festival, Music au Chateau and Salamanca Music Academy. Her longtime mentor is Bernadette Harvey.
Jennifer received her Masters in Piano Performance from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, studying with Corey McVicar and Jon Nakamatsu. She was the SFCM piano department assistant as well as a German tutor and graduated with the 2022 President’s Award for Academic Achievement and Leadership. Her studies there were generously supported by the Phyllis C.Wattis Foundation, the American Australian Association and the PPCA Performers’ Trust Foundation
Check out Jennifer’s Concerto Debut with the North Sydney Symphony Orchestra
Jennifer also holds a Bachelor of Music (Honours Class I) and a Bachelor of Laws from UNSW (2019), as well as her AMusA (Distinction – 2008) and LMusA (2011). She graduated from the Conservatorium High School as School Captain (2013). Jennifer is an admitted solicitor of the Supreme Court of New South Wales (2024).
Her debut duo album project, ‘Dear Camilla,’ with American violinist Patrick Galvin, was released on 8 August 2025. The duo have been touring internationally through Australia, the UK and EU in 2026. They will take their interdisciplinary show to the US in February supported by an InterSF Musical Grant.
Jennifer currently teaches piano privately and has a thriving studio in Canberra, Australia.