Alwynne Pritchard

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Alwynne Pritchard (born 1968) is a British performer, composer, artist and curator based in Bergen, Norway. She has also developed choreography for performances of her own pieces. [1] She is co-founder of the music-theatre company Neither Nor [2] and former artistic director of the BIT20 ensemble. [3]

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Pritchard was born in Glasgow. From 2008 and until March 2014, she was artistic director of the Borealis Festival in Bergen, and from 2001 until 2008, she taught composition at Trinity College of Music in London. Pritchard also worked for many years as a freelance writer and presenter for BBC Radio 3 including Music in Our Time, Midnight Oil, Music Matters, Hear and Now, and Discovering Music. In January 2016, she took up the position of artistic director of the BIT20 Ensemble. [4]

Her father is the composer Gwyn Pritchard. [5]

Orchestral music

Chamber music

Solos and duos

Piano

Vocal

Music theatre

Theatre

Hamlet Machine (with Thorolf Thuestad) (2016); music and sound design for the Scènes Théâtre Cinéma/Neither Nor production of Heiner Müller's Hamlet Machine [6]

Installations

Educational and amateur

Transcriptions

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References

  1. "Alwynne Pritchard – Maestro Arts". Archived from the original on 20 August 2016. Retrieved 19 August 2016.
  2. "Home". neithernor.no.
  3. "Alwynne Pritchard — BIT20 Ensemble". Archived from the original on 21 October 2016. Retrieved 19 August 2016.
  4. "Alwynne Pritchard — BIT20 Ensemble". Archived from the original on 21 October 2016. Retrieved 19 August 2016.
  5. Pritchard, Alwynne. "Atoms and the Void: Reflections on Five Works by Gwyn Pritchard". Gwyn Pritchard. Retrieved 2 December 2019.
  6. "Home". neithernor.no.