Biography
ALICE TSUI 徐晓兰 (pronounced TSOY) is a Chinese-American pianist, Grammy Music Educator Award Finalist, scholar, activist, and lifelong Brooklyn, New Yorker! Alice is the Founding Music Teacher and Arts Coordinator at PS 532 New Bridges Elementary, an arts-integrated public elementary school in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. She graduated from New York University with a Bachelor of Music degree in Piano Performance and a Master of Arts degree in Music Education and from Boston University with a Doctor of Musical Arts in Music Education.
Alice is a Moderator and Contributor for Decolonizing the Music Room and a Visionary Board Member of F-flat Books. Alice regularly facilitates citywide and national professional development on a multitude of topics including antiracist music education, student voice and empowerment with affirmations, and joy in the music classroom. Alice lectures and presents internationally on teaching and engaging students and teachers from the philosophical to the practical in culturally responsive and sustaining music education as well as trauma-informed social emotional learning. Alice has publications in the Oxford Handbook of Care in Music Education and Music Educators Journal.
Her first children’s book, “We Are Golden 我们是金的“, is a bilingual Mandarin Chinese and English, an interactive musical ebook that speaks to antiracism, affirmation, and self-reflection through music. Alice has served on the Music Education adjunct faculty of New York University, City University of New York Queens College’s Aaron Copland School of Music, and on the Piano Faculty at the Manhattan School of Music Summer program.
As a product of the New York City public school system, she is passionate about decolonizing, ABAR (anti-bias, anti-racist), and abolitionist public music education. Alice aims to empower the individual and collective voices of youth through music as expression. As an activist, Alice uplifts the solidarities between the Black and AAPI communities. She has been featured for her activism on multiple news platforms including NBC, USA Today, and NowThis News. Learn more about Alice at www.alicetsui.com, and connect with Alice on Instagram and TikTok @musicwithmissalice.