Alice Barron is a violinist following a career combining contemporary and world music through performing and research. As a founding member of the experimental world music group, iyatraQuartet who recently performed at WOMAD and Songlines Encounters Festival, Alice is passionate about collaborating and creating new music with artists from all musical traditions. Recent projects have included a co-written composition with oud player Saied Silbak for a performance at the British Museum as part of the Sunken Cities exhibition. Alice is a member of the contemporary classical group, Dr K Sextet, who work closely with composers on new commissions, as well as performances including Pierrot Lunaire by Schoenberg, Steve Reich's Double Sextet and a residency at the Cheltenham Festival 2013 and 2016.
‘iyatraQuartet summoned up a flavour of dizzy Balkan revelry’ (Ivan Hewett, The Telegraph)
Alice enjoys playing with a range of ensembles with musical backgrounds from around the world. Recent highlights include Nigel Kennedy's UK tours in January and May 2016, with the London Sinfonietta at the BBC Proms and in Poland, and with folk singer Sam Lee, with whom she played with live on BBC Radio 3 from Hay Festival 2014. As a regular member of the string group Longbow, Alice has recorded new works for 13 solo strings by composers Nigel Clarke for Michael Alec Rose for Toccata Classics. Cross-disciplinary arts projects include working with contemporary dance, live poetry, storytelling and theatre.
‘…and best of all, the striking Barron, whose beautiful violin soars and weaves along with Lee’s voice.’
(Tim Hughes, Oxford Mail, with Sam Lee and Friends)
As part of a practice-led doctorate at the University of Oxford, Alice worked on a series of collaborations creating new cross-cultural works for the violin that drew on her experiences studying in South India. She was awarded her doctorate in February 2020. Alice previously studied at the University of Nottingham and with Richard Deakin at the Royal Academy of Music, London, where she was awarded a distinction for her Masters in performance and research. She plays a violin made by Victor Unsworth in 1986, very generously left to her by her first violin teacher, Jenny Paterson, whose inspiration and support Alice is incredibly grateful for.
‘iyatraQuartet summoned up a flavour of dizzy Balkan revelry’ (Ivan Hewett, The Telegraph)
Alice enjoys playing with a range of ensembles with musical backgrounds from around the world. Recent highlights include Nigel Kennedy's UK tours in January and May 2016, with the London Sinfonietta at the BBC Proms and in Poland, and with folk singer Sam Lee, with whom she played with live on BBC Radio 3 from Hay Festival 2014. As a regular member of the string group Longbow, Alice has recorded new works for 13 solo strings by composers Nigel Clarke for Michael Alec Rose for Toccata Classics. Cross-disciplinary arts projects include working with contemporary dance, live poetry, storytelling and theatre.
‘…and best of all, the striking Barron, whose beautiful violin soars and weaves along with Lee’s voice.’
(Tim Hughes, Oxford Mail, with Sam Lee and Friends)
As part of a practice-led doctorate at the University of Oxford, Alice worked on a series of collaborations creating new cross-cultural works for the violin that drew on her experiences studying in South India. She was awarded her doctorate in February 2020. Alice previously studied at the University of Nottingham and with Richard Deakin at the Royal Academy of Music, London, where she was awarded a distinction for her Masters in performance and research. She plays a violin made by Victor Unsworth in 1986, very generously left to her by her first violin teacher, Jenny Paterson, whose inspiration and support Alice is incredibly grateful for.
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