About
Dr. Alice Wang is an active clinician, collaborator of chamber music, and an active orchestra player as a regular member of the Youngstown Symphony, the Warren Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Opera Western Reserve Orchestra. She has performed in many professional conferences, including the International Clarinet Association's Clarinet Fest and the Ohio Music Education Association Conference as a soloist and chamber musician, as well as serving as the Director of the Dana Clarinet Ensemble. Dr. Wang has been teaching and performing with artists from all over the world in the Hawaii Performing Arts Festival every summer since 2017.
Wang completed her Bachelor of Music in Performance at the University of Southern California under the tutelage of Mr.Yehuda Gilad and Mitchell Lurie. She later joined the studio of Sir Walter Boeykens of the Royal Conservatoire of Antwerp in Belgium, where she received her master’s degree. As part of the guest student artist program, Wang had the opportunity to study with Hermann Stefansson of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, Sweden. During past summers she has participated in the Aspen Music Festival, the Marrowstone Music Festival, the Atlantic Music Festival, and the Round Top Music Festival, where she soloed with the orchestra. In 2007, Wang completed her Doctorate of Musical Arts at the University of Texas at Austin under Professor Richard MacDowell, and joined the faculty of the Dana School of Music in the same year.
Wang currently lives in Pittsburgh with her husband Kurt, their occasionally ill-mannered dog Wally, a flock of hens, and depending on the season, a thriving or failing beehive.
