Alwynne Pritchard

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. She is co-founder of the music-theatre company Neither Nor and former artistic director of the BIT20 ensemble.

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.

Her father is the composer Gwyn Pritchard.

Orchestral music

• Rockaby (2016); 12 mins; orchestra, live foley, vocal/physical performer
• Critical Mass (2003); 22 mins; orchestra and tape
• Map of the Moon (2004); 20 mins; piano and orchestra
• World Enough (in two movements) (2005); 1 second; orchestra

Chamber music

• Kingdom Come (2014); 20 mins; 3 voc, hrm, electronics
• March March March (2013); 6 mins; 2fl, ob, 6cl, bsn, alt sax, ten sax, bar sax, 3hn, 3tpt, 3trb, 1euph, 2tba, 3perc
• In Nomine (2006); 3 mins; fl, ob, bcl, pno, vn, va, vc
• Decoy (2004); 17 mins; fl, ob, cl, vn, va, vc, perc, live electronics
• Word Play (2004); 12 mins; picc, fl, cl, sop sax, bar sax, 2hn, tpt, 2tbn, perc, elec bass, vc. pf
• Geometry of Pain I (2002); 10 mins; voice, vc, gtr, amplification
• Impossibility (2001); 14 mins; speaker with spoons, cl/bcl, egui, vc
• Quintet (Barbara Allen) (2000); 10 mins; 2vn, va, vc, pf
• Der Glücklose Engel (1999); 10 mins; ecl, vn, vc
• Craw (1997); 7 mins; fl, ob, cl, bn, hn, tpt, trb, pf, 2vn, va, vc
• What This Night (1997); 10 mins; ob, cl, accordion, perc, harp, 2pf
• Nocturnal (1995); 8 mins; 2vn, va, vc
• Glimpsed Most Clearly From The Corner Of Your Eye (1992); 5 mins; 7vc

Solos and duos

• Irene Electric (2013); 15 mins; amplified violin & tape
• Graffiti (2007); 13 mins; perc, electronics
• Zero (2006); 9 mins; fl/picc/bfl, acc
• To the Ground (2005); 11 mins; violin, computer
• Matrix (2001); c. 13 mins; vn
• Nostos Ou Topos II (2000); 7 mins; gtr
• Kit (1999); c. 10 mins; voice, any instrument
• Danaides (1996); 6 mins; vc, tape
• Chiaroscuro (1995); 14 mins; trb, pf
• From this deposit a transparent bubble comes to the surface at certain times and explodes gently on reaching his lips (1994); 8 mins; bcl
• Une Mort Héroïque (1993); 9 mins; speaker (tape), va

Piano

• Heart of Glass (2019)
• Loser (2014/16); 10 mins
• Geometry of Pain II (2003); 12mins; Piano and Video
• The Barnyard Song (2003); 3 mins; (for Elena Riu's Little Book of Salsa)
• Invisible Cities (1999); 7-15 mins
• Der Zwerg (1998); 10 mins
• Mesarch (1997); 5mins
• So ist mein Jesus nun gefangen (1993); 5 mins; (Transcription after Bach)
• Spring (1996); 1 min

Vocal

• Wir kommen und wir gehen (with Christian Jendreiko) (2016); choir
• Piece for girls’ choir (with Amnon Wolman) (2016); female choir
• havi ikki pláss fyri fleiri eygum (2014) 4 mins 45 secs; S.S.A.A.T.T.B.B.
• As in Heaven (2007); 21/2 mins; S.S.A.Bar.T.B
• Homecoming (2003); 20 mins; 5 amplified sopranos, electronics
• Le Crépuscule du Soir (1996); 14 mins; sop, pf

Music theatre

• Vitality Forms 6 (2016); 7-10 mins; vocal/physical performer
• Vitality Forms 5 (2016); 7-10 mins; vocal/physical performer
• Homing (2015); 20 mins; 3 vocal performers, electronics + 21 physical performers
• Vitality Forms 4 (2015); 7-10 mins; vocal/physical performer
• Vitality Forms 3 (2015); 7-10 mins; vocal/physical performer
• Vitality Forms 2 (2015); 10 mins; mixed ensemble min 5 players + 3 vocal & 3 facial performers
• Vitality Forms 1 (2015); 7-10 mins; vocal/physical performer
• Hospice Lazy (2014); 60 mins; pf, vn, vc, electronics + physical performer
• 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

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

External links

• Maestro Arts
• Alwynne Pritchard official website
• Verlag Neue Musik
• Borealis Festival
• Integra
• Fat Battery
• Ding Dong
• Review of Alwynnes Pritchards CD Rockaby
• Review of Alwynne Pritchard's CD Invisible Cities
• Intervju med Alwynne Pritchard om Borealis Festival
• Amazon UK : Music by Alwynne Pritchard on sale
• Amazon Canada : Music by Alwynne Pritchard on sale
• Keda Shop : Subterfuge in Vitro
• Presto Classico
• Gwyn Pritchard official website