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Alwynne Pritchard

Alwynne Pritchard is a performer, composer and artistic director of the Borealis festival in Bergen. She studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London and has a PhD from the University of Bristol. Her compositions and performances have been heard across Europe, America and Indonesia and she has worked with leading musicians and ensembles across the globe. Over the past decade, Alwynne has made increasing use of live electronics and music-theatre in her work, also participating as a vocal and physical performer in some of her own pieces. Her music has been described by critics as ’playful, touching and mystical’, (Asane Tidende) ’energetic and provocative’ (The Wire).

Alwynne is involved in many musical constellations, founder of the Bergen/London-based improvisation quintet FAT BATTERY (www.fatbattery.com); vocalist in the trio Myrtle along with computer programmer Thorolf Thuestad and flautist Rowland Sutherland with Berlin-based hardware electronics instrument builder/improviser Guido Henneböhl in the duo Ding Dong (www.dingdongism.de); with Austrian pianist Judith Unterpertinger as unterPritperTingerchard; and with Thorolf Thuestad and visual artist Claire Zakiewicz in FIG.

From 2001 until 2008 Alwynne taught composition at Trinity College of Music in London and has presented many contemporary music programmes for BBC Radio 3, including Music in Our Time, Midnight Oil, Music Matters, Hear and Now and Discovering Music.