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]
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]
Erika married the Eiffel Tower (2013); 20 mins; fl, ob, bass cl, 2 pianists/1 piano, vn, va, vc, video
Oh no love, you're not alone (2013); 15 mins; voice, pf, vn, vc, video
Objects of Desire (2010); 15 mins; pno, vn, va + 3 additional performers
Oslo Emmaus (2010); 18 mins; sop, alt, pf, video
Source of Energy, Routes of Power (2010); 15 mins; ob, 2 voices, pf, vn
Flutterby (2009); 15 mins; e-gtr, 2 computers
Don't touch me, you don't know where I’ve been (2008); Music Drama; 35 mins; fl/picc, cl/bcl, voice, perc, pf, gtr, electronics
Frame (2007); Music Drama; 15 mins; picc, ob, cl, bn, hn, tpt, tbn, perc, harp, gtr, vn, va, vc, db, video (2 screens), electronics
Heroic Death – Une Mort Héroïque revised (1998); 20 mins; Chamber Opera; 2sop, bar, vc
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
A Cognitive Theory of Metaphor (2009) (with Thorolf Thuestad)
Don't touch me, you don't know where I’ve been (2008) (installation version, with Thorolf Thuestad)
Educational and amateur
Thor Sleeps (2004); 7 mins; for any 4 instruments and at least one pair of hands
Barbara Allen (Fragments of a Lament) (2000); 4 or 8 mins; vn, vn (va), vc, db, pf
Transcriptions
Höchster from Cantata BWV51 (2004); 10 mins; Transcription of Bach for soprano, accordion, vn, vc
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]
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]
Erika married the Eiffel Tower (2013); 20 mins; fl, ob, bass cl, 2 pianists/1 piano, vn, va, vc, video
Oh no love, you're not alone (2013); 15 mins; voice, pf, vn, vc, video
Objects of Desire (2010); 15 mins; pno, vn, va + 3 additional performers
Oslo Emmaus (2010); 18 mins; sop, alt, pf, video
Source of Energy, Routes of Power (2010); 15 mins; ob, 2 voices, pf, vn
Flutterby (2009); 15 mins; e-gtr, 2 computers
Don't touch me, you don't know where I’ve been (2008); Music Drama; 35 mins; fl/picc, cl/bcl, voice, perc, pf, gtr, electronics
Frame (2007); Music Drama; 15 mins; picc, ob, cl, bn, hn, tpt, tbn, perc, harp, gtr, vn, va, vc, db, video (2 screens), electronics
Heroic Death – Une Mort Héroïque revised (1998); 20 mins; Chamber Opera; 2sop, bar, vc
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
A Cognitive Theory of Metaphor (2009) (with Thorolf Thuestad)
Don't touch me, you don't know where I’ve been (2008) (installation version, with Thorolf Thuestad)
Educational and amateur
Thor Sleeps (2004); 7 mins; for any 4 instruments and at least one pair of hands
Barbara Allen (Fragments of a Lament) (2000); 4 or 8 mins; vn, vn (va), vc, db, pf
Transcriptions
Höchster from Cantata BWV51 (2004); 10 mins; Transcription of Bach for soprano, accordion, vn, vc