Alwynne Pritchard

About Alwynne Pritchard

Alwynne Pritchard works with vocal and physical performance, sound, video and text. She studied composition at the Royal Academy of Music in London and has a PhD from the University of Bristol. She has composed for, and performed with, leading musicians and ensembles across the globe, and her electro-acoustic composition Decoy, created at the Experimentalstudio des SWR in Freiburg for the Donaueschingen Musiktage, received the special prize given by the Foundation Ton Bruynèl, STEIM and the Foundation GAUDEAMUS.

At the time of writing, Alwynne has commissioned more than twenty-five pieces for her ongoing solo project, DOG/GOD. Over the last decade, Alwynne has collaborated frequently as an actor and vocalist (as well as composer) with the French company Scènes Théâtre Cinéma, and her music-theatre pieces Hospice Lazy and We, Three (both created for Alpaca Ensemble), as well as her various solo projects, have been presented across Europe, Scandinavia and in the USA.

In 2016 Alwynne was awarded the commission to create a fanfare or 'marker' to celebrate the opening of the University of Bergen's newly established Department of Art, Music and Design, for which she created the book of text scores, up without an insistent casting away.

Alwynne's professional life has also included stints as a presenter for BBC Radio 3, a composition teacher at Trinity Laban, London and as Artistic Director of both the Borealis festival and BIT20 Ensemble in Bergen, Norway. Her music is published by Verlag Neue Musik, Berlin. Alwynne is co-founder and director of Neither Nor.