Alpin Hong

Tonight we attended a free one-man piano recital of Alpin Hong.  He has to be one of the most gifted pianists we have ever seen.  We both agreed that we have never heard anyone play with such passion as this young man.  He is not only a great musician he is an excellent showman as well.  He actually makes the piano sound almost liquid. The entire performance was breathtakingly exciting.

Alpin Hong is a native of Michigan and made his orchestral debut with the Kalamazoo Symphony at the age of ten. He moved to Los Angeles soon after and garnered competition victories at a young age with wins at the 1989 Stravinsky Piano Competition, the 1993 SYMF Competition and the 1994 Los Angeles Spotlight Awards Competition. He was the winner of the Concert Artists Guild Competition in 2001. His teachers include Mark Richman and Emilio del Rosario. He completed his Master’s degree as a student of Jerome Lowenthal at The Juilliard School.