Author of the Fingerßmart Gym book series, double-majored in both Piano & Chamber Music Performance & Music Pedagogy for her postgraduate studies in Germany, Mrs Alice Yap is a very active & experienced Singapore-based music trainer-mentor & pedagogue who also equips preschool principals & teachers at tertiary level whilst actively running creative piano workshops for young pianists since 1998.

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As a performer & music educator, Alice deeply believes in the strong synergy between creativity, music learning & music making and that it should not be broken. For this reason, she set up various performance ensembles since 1997, organising concerts, recitals & performances frequently reaching out to the general public in concert halls & auditoriums for education whilst sharing joy & care through music performances (amounted to hundreds of them to date) with the elderly & in the neighborhood communities.

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Since the worldwide COVID pandemic gradual lockdowns began in March 2020, she initiated a weekly online Global Teachers' Meet (GTM) that peaked over 200 attendants in one single virtual meet (remains active to date) to share teaching concerns faced during the challenging times & suggest effective solutions whilst updating & journeying with fellow music educators on the latest teaching skills & techniques including using tools (online & offline) available then for online teaching & music exam recording and at the same time inviting guest speakers (examiners, jury members, competition winners, lecturers, performers & contemporary practitioners, etc.) to cover extensive pedagogical related areas, extend training horizons & help bring teaching standards to greater height with numerous zoominar training modules arranged for fellow music educators from Australia, New Zealand, China, Hong Kong, Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, etc.

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Perhaps, her greatest acclaim as a prolific author, is her unique Fingerßmart Gym series of 24 music books encompassing music methodologies, piano & music theory studies especially curated for the contemporary & next generations of music learning. She is currently busy working on her music book project for toddlers and preparing music exam related materials (of different exam boards) for publication.

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Besides writing and teaching, she has been an active guest music lecturer at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (Singapore) and UCSI University Institute of Music (Malaysia). She was also invited as a keynote speaker at the University of Adelaide during the Summer Conference of the Music Teachers’ Association of South Australia (MTASA) in January 2020. In addition, she has served on jury panels in both Malaysia and Singapore, including her consecutive adjudication of the Music Singapore International Competition from 2023 to 2025, covering piano, violin, and the Music Theory Competition. She is honoured to have been formally appointed by ABRSM as a certified trainer and mentor for the ARSM and LRSM Teaching Diploma courses in Singapore, commencing in 2026.