Alpin Hong’s innovative outreach performances, master classes and residencies offer students a rare opportunity for in-depth interaction with a professional performing artist. Alpin recognizes that the arts provide students with qualities necessary for success in any field, including confidence, self-expression, and perseverance. He delivers context and connection to audiences unfamiliar with classical music through humorous storytelling and familiar pop culture references.
For students who already pursue musical studies, Mr. Hong enhances their motivation and enjoyment by creating and presenting exciting programming together. Finally, Alpin seeks to give aspiring young artists a sense of belonging and community that is critical for their development in the world beyond the walls of their schools.

Examples of Mr. Hong’s educational offerings include his award-winning outreach workshop, “Movies to Games, Classically Trained”, which investigates how popular movie, television, and video game music affect the listener. It demonstrates how both classical and modern composers use common rhythmic, harmonic, and melodic techniques to influence emotions.

Mr. Hong curates performances that combine different disciplines, such as a recent performance of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition that featured slideshow projections of student-created visual art. Alpin encourages cooperation between schools to allow musicians, teachers, and professionals to establish new relationships. Recent examples included gala performances featuring hundreds of orchestral, vocal, and dance students in the Kalamazoo, Michigan and Riverside, California. Mr. Hong incorporates technology in many of his residencies, including his use of online rehearsals to prepare an iPad-enhanced Beethoven Symphony No. 9 with Atlanta’s Trinity School and a lightsaber-enhanced composition created with percussionist Simon Boyar and premiered by the Las Vegas Youth Orchestras.