Alice Chance
Alice Chance is an Australian composer, conductor, arranger and lyricist. Her works are heard in concert halls from the Sydney Opera House and City Recital Hall Angel Place to the Kennedy Centre, and in cathedrals in Sydney, California and New York.
A finalist in the APRA Art Music Awards for Vocal/Choral Work of the Year, Alice has written for the Song Company, Ensemble Offspring, Gondwana Choirs, Sydney Children’s Choir, Moorambilla Voices, the Kodály Association, Adelaide Chamber Singers, Musica Viva, Barangaroo Delivery Authority and Acacia String Quartet.
She was Music Director and Vocal Arranger of FANGIRLS (Queensland Theatre, Belvoir) and music-directed its showcases at the Women of the World Festival in London and the Adelaide Cabaret Festival in 2018. She graduated with First Class Honours from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.
Artist's website: alicechance.com
Compositions by Alice Chance appear on
Rhythms of Change
In 2020 Claire Edwardes, often called the wonder woman of percussion, launched Rhythms of Change, a commissioning project for solo percussion that confronts the under-representation of women in classical programming and builds a lasting new repertoire.
Australian Monody
The Marais Project is joined by countertenor Russell Harcourt for a collection of largely Australian songs and instrumental works, spanning light and darkness, love and loss.
Acacia Quartet: Mozart Dvorak Chance
Three four-movement string quartets — Mozart’s D minor K. 421, Alice Chance’s Sundried, and Dvořák’s American — played with the clarity and ensemble blend Acacia Quartet is known for.
Bass Instincts
The bass recorder has grown from consort roots into a virtuosic solo voice: deep, earthy, mellow and haunting. Alicia Crossley, one of Australia’s leading recorder players, presents a programme of new Australian works written for the instrument.
Snow in Summer
In 18th-century Scotland, folk songs sat beside Corelli and Vivaldi without hierarchy. Across thirteen tracks, Snow in Summer pairs period sonatas with folk arrangements: sparse strings, plucked notes like stars, and a voice high above.
Alice Chance is a member of
Josie and the Emeralds
Josie and the Emeralds is a Sydney early-music ensemble founded in 2011, uniting soprano with viol consort in Renaissance song and new Australian writing for the viol.