Alwynne Pritchard
Alwynne Pritchard is an interdisciplinary artist based in Bergen, Norway. She is of Scottish, Welsh, English, Polish and Irish heritage. Alwynne is the daughter of the composer Gwyn Pritchard. She studied composition at the Royal Academy of Music in London and has a Master's degree in Musicology and a PhD in Composition from the University of Bristol. Her work combines her skills as a composer, singer, actor, physical performer and violinist with her interest in text, costume and video.
Alwynne's performances, compositions and installations have been presented around the world and in 2005 her electro-acoustic composition Decoy, created at the in Freiburg for the Donaueschingen Musiktage, received the special prize given by the, STEIM and the Foundation GAUDEAMUS. In 2019, she was nominated by BIT Teatergarasjen for the Bergens Tidende Audience Award and in 2024, her work Counting Backwards was nominated for Work of the Year by the Norwegian Society of Composers.
In 2016, Alwynne was awarded the commission to create a fanfare or ‘marker’ to celebrate the opening of the University of Bergen’s newly established, for which she created the book of text scores, up without an insistent casting away. In 2015, she co-founded the music-theatre company .
Alwynne's professional life has also included stints as a presenter for BBC Radio 3, a composition teacher at Trinity Laban in London and as Artistic Director of both the Borealis festival and BIT20 Ensemble. Her music is published by, Berlin.
Selected concert composition premieres
Institutions of the Flesh,,, Bergen, 2021 and nyMusikk, Trondheim, 2023Ark, and the Museum of Natural History, Bergen, 2021Heart of Glass, Zubin Kanga,, 2019Nostalgia,,, Berlin, 2019Public People, and,, Berlin, 2018From a Distant Far Inside, WITHIN II,, Bergen, 2016Rockaby, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra with composer as vocalist,, Glasgow, 2016Glorvina, fixed media, BBC Proms, London, 2012Graffiti, Christian Dierstein and, Heinrich-Strobel-Saal, SWR studio, Freiburg, 2007 •Map of the Moon, Nicolas Hodges and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Glasgow, 2007Decoy, Ensemble Recherche and, Donaueschinger Musiktage, 2004Der Glücklose Engel, Apartment House, University of Bristol, 1999Der Zwerg, Nicolas Hodges, University of Oxford Schubert Bicentenary Symposium, Denis Arnold Hall, 1997Nocturnal, BBC, Arditti String Quartet, Institute for Contemporary Art, London, 1995Music-theatre/Interdisciplinary works and performances
All Dressed Up And Nowhere To Go,, Berlin, 2024Dream Boat, for,, Bergen, 2024Nature aggressive, music for live illustration performance by and,, 2024 Plañideras: Historia de convertir una tragedia en producto, music for dance performance, tour of Spanish venues, 2024Unwriting: Part 1,, Oslo, 2023 Living Room,, 2023- Counting Backwards, BIT20 Ensemble, Borealis festival, Bergen, 2023MONGREL - Dogs, Gods, Bitches and Demons, commissioned and other solo pieces presented in combination with own works,, Thessaloniki, 2022Beethoven Ascending 360, installation,, 2022EDEN, collaborative dance project with,, and, Freiburg, 2022Gåologi, collaborative project with, BIT Teatergarasjen, Bergen, 2022Intonation, final performance for the University of Bergen, Bergen International Festival (FiB), 2018Stamp Club Report 1980, Kammerkoret GNEIS and friends, and, Bergen, 2018Hospice Lazy, and Alwynne Pritchard,, Trondheim, 2014; Avant Garden Trondheim and, 2017; and USF Verftet, Bergen, 2018We, three ,, Avant Garden, Trondheim and, 2017Regnsvart on texts by Erland Nødtvedt,, Borealis festival, Bergen, 2017Vitality Forms 5 and 6, Alwynne Pritchard,, London, 2016Vitality Forms 3 and 4, Alwynne Pritchard,, Essen, 2015Vitality Forms 2,, Schloss Benrath, Düsseldorf, 2015Vitality Forms 1, Alwynne Pritchard,, 2015The Art of Violin Playing, work-in-progress performance, o espaço do tempo, Montemor-o-Novo and, Bergen, 2015Homing,, Claudia Klasicka, Anders Ohnstad, and, Borealis festival, Bergen, 2015Oh no love, you're not alone, +, video,, Trondheim and, 2013Erika married the Eiffel Tower, ensemble recherche + video, Ultima festival, Oslo and, Graz, 2013Oslo Emmaus, and video, Borealis festival, Odda, 2011Objects of Desire, ensemble recherche, Amsterdam, 2010Source of energy, routes of power, ensemble Scratch the Surface, Kleine Thermin, Kempten, 2010Flutterby,,, Amsterdam, 2009Don't touch me, you don't know where I’ve been,, Alwynne Pritchard, and electronics, Borealis festival, Bergen, 2008Frame,, electronics and film,,, Copenhagen, 2007
Theatre
Issue Commune,,, 2024Underground '', / production,, Lyon and, Bergen, 2019Hamlet Machine, /,, Lyon, 2016Bull's eye'',, Marseille, 2013Installations and exhibitions
Parlour, collaborative installation with, for Lydgalleriet, Bergen, 2021up without an insistent casting away, site-specific performance for the opening ceremony, Department of Fine Art, and the Department of Design for, University of Bergen, 2017 and 2018Guardian Angels, exhibition of portrait photographs by Alwynne Pritchard, The Cello Factory, London, 2013Tear me, eat me, burn me, laser-cut paper, mirror, backlighting, 4 x framed graphic-score-inspired pieces,, Borealis festival, Notations exhibition, 2013Don't touch me, you don't know where I've been, installation version, KhiB Sensuous Knowledge Conference, Os, 2009A Cognitive Theory of Metaphor, sound installation created by and Alwynne Pritchard for, Lydgalleriet, Bergen, 2009Don't touch me, you don't know where I've been, in-stallation version,,, Bergen, 2008Sheet Music, performance by on paper instruments made by and Alwynne Pritchard, SAN Expo Brighton and Lost and Found conference/concert, Oxford, 2008Sheet Music, performance by FAT BATTERY on paper instruments made by and Alwynne Pritchard,, Bergen, 2006Sheet Music, performance by,,, and Alwynne Pritchard on paper instruments made by and Alwynne Pritchard, Lydgalleriet, Bergen, 2006Sheet Music, exhibition of photographs of paper instruments made by and Alwynne Pritchard, USF Verftet, Bergen, 2006Books
up without an insistent casting away, text pieces commissioned to celebrate the opening of the Department of Fine Art, and the Department of Design for, University of Bergen, 2017CDs
Les Soliloques décortiqués, portrait of Vinko Globokar with BIT20 Ensemble, Kairos, 2020Rockaby, Kairos, 2019- Alpaca Bowie, Oh No Love, You're Not Alone,, 2015To the Ground, and, Suspended Beginnings, Farbor Melker Records, 2012Subterfuge In Vitro,, 2005The Barnyard Song, 's Little Book of Salsa,, 2004Geometry of Pain I, Wittener Tage für neue Kammer musik, documentation disc, 2002Invisible Cities,, 2002Invisible Cities, Darmstadt disc, 2000