Alice Ping

With a passion for blending classical and popular styles, violist Alice Ping has spent most of her life pursuing a love of music while incorporating many types of artistic expression into her playing. Her affinity towards performing, both classically and otherwise, has allowed her ample opportunities to collaborate with a variety of acclaimed artists and musicians.

Based in Los Angeles, Alice maintains an active freelancing career as both a player and teacher. She is a member of both the Santa Barbara and New West Symphonies, and performs regularly with the Pacific Symphony, Delirium Musicum Chamber Orchestra and LA Master Chorale. She is also rising session musician, having recorded the soundtracks for many popular movies and television shows. She recently had the honor of working with John Williams when she premiered his new theme for the Obi-Wan Kenobi television series at the 2022 Star Wars Convention. Over the years, Alice has performed with Boz Scaggs, Kelly Clarkson, Edie Brickell and Steve Martin, Peter Asher, Martina McBride, and with Demi Lovato for YouTube’s Best.Cover.Ever. She has repeatedly worked with acclaimed music director Rickey Minor, and twice has performed at the exclusive Clive Davis Grammy Party with Grammy winners Ben Platt and Brandi Carlile. Alice can also be seen regularly as a string player on The Voice, and was an electric violin soloist at the 2019 Governor’s Ball Emmy Party.

She was also instrumental in the string arranging process for Wayne Shorter and Esperanza Spalding’s opera, “Iphigenia ,” having participated in open workshops with the likes of Joni Mitchell, Herbie Hancock, and architect Frank Gehry. Alice has also been mentored by many acclaimed musicians including the late Donald McInnes, Cynthia Phelps, Misha Amory, members of the Miró Quartet and The Juilliard String Quartet, Sheila Browne, Danielle Belen, and Anne Epperson.

Earning her Master of Music degree from The Juilliard School, Alice was a student of the late Roger Tapping, former violist of the renowned Takash Quartet and of JSQ.  She received her Bachelor of Music Degree from the University of Texas at Austin, and graduated with high honors under the tutelage of the late Roger Myers, whose virtuosic style of playing and educational lineage provided her with a direct link to the legendary William Primrose.

A winner of the University of Texas Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition in 2016, she made an invigorating solo debut performing the Concerto for Viola and Orchestra by William Walton. This performance was later broadcasted on the KMFA radio program “From The Butler School,” where host Scott Hannah hailed Alice’s performance as “an example of the remarkable work done by young soloists.”

Alice plays on a 2009 Mietek Rusnak viola from the workshop of William Harris Lee & Co. in Chicago, and a modern bow from Swiss craftsman Pierre-Yves Fuchs.