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| Alicia Grant was born in Sydney in 1978
and holds an LRAM and first-class BMus(Hons) degree from the Royal Academy
of Music, University of London where she studied composition with Simon
Bainbridge, Christopher Brown, and Melanie Daiken. Whilst at the RAM, she
won numerous scholarships and prizes including the Charles Lucas prize,
William Elkin prize, and the Arthur Hinton Memorial prize for composition.
Having received an ORS Award and a Clarendon Fund scholarship from the University
of Oxford, she is currently studying at Worcester College with Dr Robert
Saxton for the DPhil in composition and analysis. In 2004 she was the recipient
of the John Lowell Osgood Memorial prize for composition at Oxford. Her compositions have featured in a number of concerts, workshops, and festivals across London including the Park Lane Group Composer's Symposium (Queen Elizabeth Hall), the Ixion 'cutting edge' workshop at the Warehouse, the Part Festival and the Kagel Festival at the RAM. She has been involved with education projects with COMA and the London Sinfonietta and has had her work performed in workshops run by the BBC Singers, the London Sinfonietta, and the National Theatre. Major public performances of her work include: Sydney Opera House Concert Hall (Soliloquy, solo piano, 1996); Royal Geographical Society (Corroboree, accompanying soundtrack to art exhibition, 1999); Sydney Entertainment Centre (Psalm 121, vocal/organ/bagpipes, 1999); British Music Information Centre (Surreal Sailing, solo piano, 2000); Bath International Music Festival (commission for the COMA Ensemble, 2001). Her work Accretion for bass clarinet and piano received a very favourable review from the UK Clarinet and Saxophone magazine and was performed in the finals of the Performing Australian Music Competition in the Exhibition Hall of the Australian High Commission, London. This concert was broadcast on ABC Classic FM across Australia in July 2001. Accretion has since been performed at St John's Smith Square in London as part of the MUSIC OZ series and will be performed again this September at Australia Musical Connections, Australia House, London. Her symphony orchestra work Transparent Voices received its world premiere by the Orquesta Sinfónica Municipal of Mar del Plata in the Teatro Colón de la ciudad de Mar del Plata, Argentina in November 2001. In 2002 her works were showcased in concerts given by Ensemble Isis, the Oxford contemporary music group, in Oxford and London. Last year she was chosen to take part in the 21st Century Australian Composers Program and completed a new work, Cross Currents, for the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra which was performed in the Iwaki Auditorium in Melbourne last September, conducted by Markus Stenz. This concert was broadcast live on ABC Classic FM across Australia. Another orchestral work, Centrifugue, was written for the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra and performed as part of the Australian Composers Orchestral Forum which took place in the Federation Concert Hall, Hobart last December. Following the success of this performance, she was selected to write another work for the orchestra. This new work, entitled Interweaves, will be performed in Hobart this November. Other recent commissions include a new work for the New Cambridge Singers to be premiered in Cambridge early 2005 and a piece for symphony orchestra and choir to be performed mid-2005 by the PLC Symphony Orchestra and Choir in Sydney. |
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