Dr. Alice Wang
Assistant Professor of Clarinet

3047 Bliss Hall
330/941-3641 (studio)
330/941-1490 (fax)
amwang@ysu.edu

With a career including solo and ensemble concerts in Belgium, New York City, Sweden, Los Angeles and Taiwan, Alice Wang's clarinet performances have been described as “lively, assuring” and “incredible [with] fast and intricate finger work.”  She has worked with composers Henryk Gorecki, Joan Tower and Jennifer Higdon and performed under Christopher Hogwood and Gunther Schuller.  Dr. Wang has also had the pleasure of recording with jazz harmonicist Jean “Toots” Thielemans and premiered compositions by John Corigliano, percussionist Kevin Norton and jazz trumpeter Dave Douglas, the latter as a member of the award-winning American Repertory Ensemble.  Some of the other highlights of Dr. Wang's career include collaborating in a European concert tour to promote the awareness of Asian cultures, receiving an invitation from the Royal Conservatory of Music in Stockholm to be a resident guest artist and giving a solo concerto performance with the Texas Festival Orchestra. 

Since her appointment as Assistant Professor of Clarinet for the Dana School of Music at Youngstown State University in 2007, Dr. Wang directs the Dana Clarinet Ensemble and has been a featured soloist with the Youngstown State University Wind Ensemble and the Ohio District 5 Honor Band.  She is also a member of the Faculty woodwind quartet at Youngstown State University and has performed with the Valley Lyric Opera, Opera Western Reserve and the Westminster woodwind quintet.  Dr. Wang completed her Doctorate of Musical Arts in Clarinet at the University of Texas at Austin with Prof. Richard MacDowell.  Her previous teachers include Yehuda Gilad and Mitchell Lurie at the University of Southern California, as well as Sir Walter Boeykins at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Antwerpe and Hermann Stefansson of the Stockholm Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.

Clarinet Studio Syllabus