Biography
Alison Ma is a passionate piano teacher and accompanist. She has obtained a Master of Arts in Performance (Piano Accompaniment) with distinction from the Royal Academy of Music, alongside with an honorary DipRAM and an Exam Board Prize for the highest recital mark. She has also obtained the Licentiate of the Royal Academy of Music. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Music with first-class honours from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She studied piano with Prof. James Baillieu, Prof. Michael Dussek, Prof. Andrew West, Dr. Timothy Kwok Ka-ho, and Ms. Ko Suk Han.
Performance
Alison is enthusiastically involved in piano accompaniment and has been actively performing with instrumentalists and singers. Apart from performing locally in Hong Kong, she has also performed internationally in New York, London, Leeds, South Korea, Taiwan, Mainland China. Her stage appearances including prestigious venues such as Wigmore Hall, Carnegie Hall, LSO St. Luke’s, Sinfonia Smith Square, the Italian Cultural Institute, and the Austrian Cultural Forum in London.
Awards
Being praised for her musicality and sensitivity to vocal nuances, she was awarded the Elena Gerhardt Lieder Prize, the Major Van Someren-Godfrey Prize for Piano Accompaniment, and the Rex Stephens Prize for Accompanists (First Prize) at the Royal Academy of Music. She also got the Exam Board Prize for the highest recital mark. Additionally, she was a recipient of the Hong Kong Scholarship for Excellence Scheme. She was also on the Dean's List of CUHK for consecutive years.
Teaching and Collaboration
Alison is enthusiastic in music education. She has been the instructor of the Hong Kong Children’s Choir. She has also worked with Tak Sun Secondary School, Belilios Public School, the Chung Chi Choir of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Fame Singing Academy and Pui Kiu Primary School as a piano accompanist.
