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First name: Alwynne
Last name: Pritchard
Dates: 1968
Category: Doublebass
Nationality: Scottish
Opus name: Barbara Allen: Fragments of a Lament (2000)
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Peculiarities: https://britishmusiccollection.org.uk/score/barbara-allen-fragments-lament https://chambermusic2000.com/repertoire/ http://www.alwynnepritchard.co.uk/
Information: (composers site: http://www.alwynnepritchard.co.uk) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Alwynne Pritchard (born 1968 in Glasgow) is a British artist, performer and composer. Alwynne Pritchard was born in Glasgow in 1968 and as a teenager began having composition lessons with her father, Gwyn Pritchard. She then studied with Robert Saxton at the Guildhall School of Music, and later with Melanie Daiken, Justin Connolly and Michael Finnissy at the Royal Academy of Music. where she was awarded many prizes for her work. During this time she also studied voice with the mezzo-soprano Linda Hirst. In 1997 she was awarded a research scholarship by the University of Bristol and in 2003 received a PhD in composition. In the summer of 2000 Alwynne was awarded a Visions of Norway scholarship for a two-month artist’s residency at the Kulturhuset USF Verftet, Bergen and later returned for an extended residency three years later. In April 2007 she completed a one-year residency at the Internationales Künstlerhaus Villa Concordia in Bamberg, Bavaria after which she spent a year living in Berlin; from June until August 2010, she was resident at PointB Worklodge, New York; and in 2012 she was Artist in Residence (with Thorolf Thuestad) at the Philippine High School for the Arts (PHSA) in Los Baños, Philippines. From 2008 until 2013, Alwynne was Artistic Director of the Borealis festival (www.borealisfestival.no) in Bergen, Norway, where she now lives. In 2005 Alwynne formed the Bergen/London-based improvisation quintet FAT BATTERY (www.fatbattery.com), and has also performed as a vocalist with computer programmer Thorolf Thuestad and flautist Rowland Sutherland in the trio Myrtle; 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 the visual artist Claire Zakiewicz in Fig.. From 2001 until 2008 Alwynne taught composition at Trinity College of Music in London. She has also worked regularly as a project leader for the BIT20 Ensemble’s music education projects in Norway and abroad and presented many contemporary music programmes for BBC Radio 3, including Music in Our Time, Midnight Oil, Music Matters, Hear and Now and Discovering Music. Alwynne Pritchard’s music is published by Verlag Neue Musik, Berlin (www.verlag-neue-musik.de).