Alicia Crossley
Alicia Crossley is one of Australia’s leading recorder players. She performs repertoire from Renaissance dance tunes to contemporary electro-acoustic works, with a particular interest in the bass recorder.
In 2010 Alicia completed her Master of Music (Performance) at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music under recorder virtuoso Hans-Dieter Michatz. Since then she has won several competitions and awards, including the Don Cowell Memorial Trust Recorder Competition (2011), the Australia Council’s ArtStart Grant for emerging artists (2013), and the Fine Music 102.5 Kruger Scholarship (2014). In August 2011 she released her debut solo CD Addicted to Bass, featuring seven newly commissioned Australian works for bass recorder.
An experienced player, she performs regularly throughout Australia and has toured in the USA and New Zealand. She has presented works at festivals and conferences including the Aurora Festival (Sydney, 2012 and 2014), Vivid Festival (Sydney, 2013), the Australasian Computer Music Conference (Brisbane, 2012), Electronic Music Midwest (Chicago, 2012), and SEAMUS (Minnesota, 2013). She has been broadcast on ABC Classic FM, Fine Music 102.5, 2GB and Radio New Zealand, and has performed with Neal Peres da Costa (harpsichord), Daniel Yeadon (cello/viola da gamba), Jamie Hey (cello), Alice Evans (violin), Hans-Dieter Michatz (recorder), Ruth Wilkinson (recorder), Kamala Bain (recorder), The Sydney Consort, and The Marais Project.
A passionate supporter of contemporary Australian recorder repertoire, she has collaborated with many Australian composers and premiered works by Stephen Yates, Paul Cutlan, Elias Constantopedos, Hayden Woolf, Tristan Coelho, Mark Oliveiro, Andrew Batt-Rawden, Chris Williams, Paul Castles and Alex Pozniak.
Alicia Crossley is featured on the following titles
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.
Muse
Australian recorder virtuoso Alicia Crossley joins the Acacia Quartet for the premiere recording of six Australian works for lower-voiced recorders and string quartet, drawing on poetry, mythology, historic song and storybook characters.
Alchemy
Alicia Crossley, one of Australia’s leading recorder players, presents transcriptions that open classical, romantic, impressionist and contemporary repertoire to tenor and bass recorder.
Arranger
Mixing Engineer
Performing as Duo Blockstix
Duo Blockstix are a unique and vibrant Australian ensemble featuring recorder player Alicia Crossley and percussionist Joshua Hill.
Duo Blockstix: Works for Percussion and Recorder
Duo Blockstix is a unique Australian ensemble of recorder player Alicia Crossley and percussionist Joshua Hill, formed around the woody tones and sharp articulation of this unusual pairing.
Alicia Crossley is a member of
Duo Blockstix
Duo Blockstix are a unique and vibrant Australian ensemble featuring recorder player Alicia Crossley and percussionist Joshua Hill.