Biography
British composer Alice Hunter is known for her complex and thought-provoking music that challenges established convention through inventive harmonic progressions, extended instrumental techniques, and explorative melodic phrases. Alice’s individual approach has been formed through her instrumental experiences in percussion, clarinet, cello and saxophone at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, The University of Surrey and composition at the Royal Academy of Music. These experiences combined with a fascination for ever changing cultural traditions, psychological experiences and everyday modern advances, culminate in an invariably programmatic, direct, and rich musical voice.
As a Masters graduate of the Royal Academy of Music London (2018), Alice received composition tuition from Peter Maxwell Davies, Oliver Knussen, Harrison Birtwistle, Bent Sørensen, Rolf Wallin, Tansy Davies, David Sawer, and Edmund Finnis. Alice has also been an enthusiastic conductor of both classical works and her own composition, receiving conducting tuition from George Hurst, Denise Ham, Paul Brough, Rodolfo Saglimbeni and Robert Houlihan.
Alice’s compositional ventures are far-reaching. She has had her work performed and recorded worldwide in Kaleidoscope MusArt's Crumb’s Cosmos Project in Miami, The British and Armenia Bridge project in Yerevan and the 19’40” Call for Scores in Milano and Lecco, Italy. Alice was also semi-finalist for the Zemlinsky Prize in Cincinnati, winner of the Ablaze Records Orchestral Masters vol.7 call for scores (2019) and has been awarded an Honourable Mention in the III International Composition Prize SEM (2018) for her piece ‘Black Flight’ for large orchestra. Alice’s music has also been workshopped by the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, CHROMA ensemble, Rolf Hind, and Zubin Kanga.