Ashley Ng

Serving as the Associate Principal Second Violinist with the South Dakota Symphony Orchestra and Concertmaster of the Minnetonka Symphony Orchestra, Ashley Ng enjoys performing in orchestral and chamber music ensembles throughout the Midwest.

Passionate about performing new music, Ng is a founding member of the 10th Wave Chamber Music Collective: a musician-led ensemble that collaborates with both local and historically excluded artists and composer of color to perform new music and provide an inclusive concert experience throughout the Twin Cities and online communities.

In addition to performing, Ng is proud to be a faculty member of the MacPhail Center for Music where she began her musical studies as an 8-year-old.  Ng is involved both as a private teacher as well as working with group classes through MacPhail’s School Partnerships program and most recently taking on the role of assistant conductor for the New Horizons Orchestra in 2022.

Ng helped create an after-school private lesson program at Roseville Area High School in 2017 that provides affordable music lessons as well as scholarships for students in 9th-12th grade.  Ng has also been a faculty member at Yinghua Academy’s Music Conservatory, Roseville Summer Orchestra Camp, and Mounds View Schools Summer Orchestra.  Ng attended the Boston Conservatory (BM ’11), Boston University (MM’13), and graduated with her Doctorate in Musical Arts from the University of Minnesota in 2017.  Her former teachers include Young Nam Kim, Lucia Lin, Lynn Chang and Cheryl Stewart.