One of the world’s leading solo harpists, Alice’s many achievements include myriad international performances, commissioning new works for the electro-acoustic harp and recipient of an Antarctic Arts Fellowship. For the fellowship she performed a solo concert at Mawson Station and ‘recorded the sound of the wind through the harp strings on the ice’. Alice just finished organising the World Harp Congress in Sydney: ‘It’s exciting – the harp is currently taking a leading role in crossing genres. For example, hearing contemporary music on a Scottish folk harp is very rejuvenating.’
The only harpist at her first National Music Camp (1978-80), Alice valued how AYO’s non-competitive atmosphere ‘facilitated individual creative engagement; musicians weren’t afraid to tell their own stories’. A secret for career success? ‘Follow your own path without fear’.
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