Being awarded a two-year full scholarship by the Hong Kong Jockey Club Music and Dance Fund, Alice Hui studied at Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris after graduating from Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts with First-Class Honour. After getting all votes and congratulations from the jury and winning the first prizes at the school concours two years in a roll, she later on studied directly the second year of the Diploma Superieur de Concertiste. During the years in Europe, she held recitals and performed publicly at St.Merry Church, Cite Internationale des Arts, Musee Nationale Henner, Ville de Paris Marie and Salle Cortot. In 2016, she won the concerto competition at HKAPA and was chosen as one of the Young Music Makers by RTHK4 with the award of “Adjudicators’ Choice”. She was furthermore invited to record for Hong Kong Museum of Art’s “the Sound of Art” series in 2021. She was also chosen as one of the six elite musicians to join and play at the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra in 2021-22 under The Orchestra Academy. In 2024, she was invited by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department under the Hong Kong Government to give a recital alongside with her husband, Tommy Liu the bassoonist, as the debut concert of the “Hong Kong Artists” Series.
As an enthusiastic orchestral musician, she has started playing as a freelance flutist and piccoloist at the Hong Kong Sinfonietta since the age of 18, and she has also worked with Asian Youth Orchestra, Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, the Inheritage Philharmonic, Grand Opera and Musica Viva, to name a few. As a devoted educator, she is currently teaching at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts’ junior music school and her students have been accepted to study at the Temple University in the United States, Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University, the Education University of Hong Kong and Hong Kong University. Alice has been invited and will be joining the Dorian Flute Festival in Taiwan as a faculty member in the summer 2025.
