Yun Ju (Alice) Pan is Adjunct Instructor of Percussion at the University of North Alabama, teaching alongside Dr. Tracy Wiggins. She is an internationally acclaimed educator, soloist, and chamber musician.
As an active performer and educator, Alice has performed across the world in competitions, festivals and concerts throughout Australia, Taiwan, Japan, China and the United States, including performances at PASIC. She often works with percussion ensembles and chamber groups and performs alongside acclaimed musicians. Alice has also held masterclasses and clinics at various universities across the world, focusing on topics ranging from percussion ensemble and solo marimba to elementary music.
Alice was honored to be accepted to study with legendary marimbist, Ms. Keiko Abe, at the Toho Gakuen School of Music, to which Ms. Abe has said, "Alice has born musicality and plays a very sensitive performance so that I am convinced that her performance will reach strongly to a heart of the audience".
Alice holds a Doctoral of Music Arts from Michigan State University, a Master of Percussion Performance from Ithaca College and a Bachelor of Performance Music Art from SooChow University (Taiwan). Her teachers include Keiko Abe, Gordon Stout, Gwendolyn Dease, Jon Weber, Randy Gelispie, Pei-Ching Wu, Kuang-Yuan Kuo and Susan Wu.
Alice is proudly endorsed by Yamaha Corporation of America, Remo Drumheads and Innovative Percussion.
