Dr. Alice Hong began her violin studies at the age of ten and composing at the age of nine.

Growing up, Alice spent a year studying violin performance at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. After returning to her hometown in Georgia, she was featured as a performer and composer of Atlanta Symphony Orchestra's Conversation of Note series, presented by ASO Music Director Robert Spano. She has since appeared as a soloist with orchestras across the southeast and has held concertmaster and principal positions for orchestras at Spoleto Festival USA, Sarasota Music Festival, Colorado College Summer Music Festival, Shepherd School Symphony Orchestra, the Cleveland Institute of Music, Brevard Music Center, and orchestral ensembles at the Banff Centre. She is a member of the Colorado Music Festival Orchestra, and she performs as a substitute violinist in the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Colorado Symphony, Buffalo Philharmonic, Charleston Symphony Orchestra, The Atlanta Opera, and Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony, among others. Alice has also performed in masterclasses and worked with acclaimed musicians such as James Ehnes, Pamela Frank, Donald Weilerstein, Viktor Danchenko, Noah Bendix-Balgley, and Soovin Kim, amongst others. She is a first-prize winner of the International IMKA Music Competition and has earned recognition in the Lennox, Mika Hasler, and Hellam string competitions. She has been featured on CBC Radio One, Toronto Music 311, WABE 90.1 Atlanta and WSMR 89.9 Tampa, and she was also included on CBC Music's "30 Hot Canadian Classical Musicians Under 30, 2018 Edition".

As an avid chamber musician, Alice participated in several semesters of Cleveland Institute of Music’s Intensive Quartet Seminar and has collaborated with esteemed musicians such as James Ehnes, Mihaela Martin, Frans Helmerson, Cho-Liang Lin, Jonathan Crow, and New Orford Quartet, amongst others. She toured in the inaugural Heifetz Institute's "Heifetz on Tour" series, and she has performed at festivals such as Kneisel Hall, Lake George Music Festival, Highlands-Cashier Music Festival, Sarasota Music Festival, Spoleto Festival USA, Banff Centre Masterclasses for Strings and Winds, Toronto Summer Music Festival, Heifetz Institute of Music, St. Lawrence String Quartet Seminar, Colorado College Summer Music Festival, Bowdoin International Music Festival, Rocket City New Music, Foulger Institute of Music, International Music Academy of Plzen, Brevard Music Center, and Sewanee Summer Music Festival. She has also performed in 28 countries with Lincoln Center Stage.

Alice is also an international award-winning composer. Her first orchestral piece, Mystic Trilogy, was premiered at age 11 and has since had compositions performed in Hungary, Sweden, China, Czech Republic, Canada, across America, and featured on Toronto's Music 311 and as film scores for Studio 3D productions. They have been programmed in concerts performed at the Kennedy Center of Performing Arts, Spoleto Festival USA, Colorado Music Festival, the Primrose International Viola Competitions recitals, Atlanta Symphony Conversation of Note series, and the Northern California Viola Society as the commissioned work for their Young Violists Competition. She has been commissioned by and was composer-in-residence for festivals like the Toronto Summer Music Festival and Lövstabruks Kammarmusikfestival in Sweden. Her pieces have won multiple awards from the ASCAP Morton Gould Awards, first prize and audience prize at the 2nd International Keuris Composition Competition in the Netherlands for her full orchestra piece Phoenix, third prize of the 2021 „Steirischer TonkünstlerBund“ International Composition Competition of Austria for her violin and cello duo The Current (And Those Who Ride It), first prize at Pikes Peak Young Composers Competition, first prize of Cleveland Institute of Music’s inaugural Carl E. Baldessere Competition for composer-virtuosi, first prize of the 2020 Belvedere Chamber music Festival Composition Competition, third prize as well as audience prize of Lands End Ensemble Composers Competition, audience prize and a commission for the Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra for the 2024 Rapido! Cycle 7 Composition Competition, and a merit award for the 2020 Tribeca New Music Young Composers Competition. ​

Alice’s orchestral pieces have been recorded and performed by the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Niagara Symphony Orchestra, Georgian Bay Symphony, Georgia Tech Symphony Orchestra, Ludwig Symphony Orchestra, and Amersfoort Youth Orchestra, amongst others. Some of the performers of her chamber pieces include members of the New York Philharmonic, principal members of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Canadian Opera Company, and National Ballet of Canada, Cypress String Quartet and Rolston String Quartet. Upcoming commissions include an orchestral work for the Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra.

Alice earned her Doctorate of Musical Arts at the University of Toronto in 2018 under the private tutelage of Jonathan Crow, as well as a Master of Music degree in 2016 from Rice University's Shepherd School of Music as a Dorothy R. Starling Foundation Scholar studying with Cho-Liang Lin. She earned her Bachelor of Music degree in 2014 at the Cleveland Institute of Music with David Updegraff.
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Alice also hopes to bring awareness to the importance of music programs and community appreciation for classical music and musicians, specifically for the community of Atlanta and the members of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. In her efforts, she organized the annual ATL Symphony Appreciation Concerts for seven years, programming ensembles with current Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra students and ASYO alumni in collaboration with Atlanta Symphony members to celebrate the great contributions of the symphony to the community of Atlanta. Donations and proceeds from these concerts go to the ATL Symphony Musicians Foundation ASYO Scholarship Fund.

Alice is also the founder of Luxardo Entertainment Group, a collective of musicians aiming to bridge the gap between classical and pop music and producing immersive concert experiences.

As a private violin teacher, Alice’s students have participated in Georgia Music Education Assocation’s All-State orchestras, Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra, Emory Symphony Youth Orchestra, and Metropolitan Youth Symphony Orchestra. They have also studied at the Eastman School of Music and New England Conservatory following their private studies with Alice and have placed in competitions like the Skule Orchestra Concerto Competition, Franklin Pond Chamber Competition, and more. Alice served as a Teaching Assistant at the Cleveland Institute of Music and University of Toronto for Jonathan Crow, Annalee Patipatanakoon, Norbert Palej, and Gary Kulesha.