Biography

Active in contemporary music, Alison has performed new works as part of the International Ensemble Modern Akademie at the Klangspuran Festival in Austria, June in Buffalo Contemporary Music Festival, and Weill Music Institute's Young Professionals Training Workshop at Carnegie Hall, among others. Her ensemble Out of Context presents new works and has presented composition masterclasses at both Southern Oregon University and the University of Missouri at Kansas City. As a chamber musician, Alison performs with many Los Angeles ensembles. Her woodwind quintet Midnight Winds toured Poland in 2008 and has premiered many compositions and transcriptions, including Ligeti's Musica Ricercata by composer David Plylar. A frequent performer on period instruments, Alison plays with Harmonia Baroque and the shawm and sackbutt ensemble Loud Band. Her baroque oboe experience includes concerts with the Dallas Bach Society, Corona Del Mar Baroque Festival, Rochester Early Music Festival, Harmonia Baroque and as a soloist with the Baroque Orchestra of University of Southern California.

Alison holds a Bachelors Degree from the Eastman School of Music and a Masters degree from the University of Southern California. Currently, Alison lives in Los Angeles. This summer she will perform in the Lucerne Festival Academy in Switzerland under Peirre Boulez. Alison and composer/pianist David Plylar are winners of the 2008 Ladies Music Club of Seattle Competition. They will give a recital tour of Washington state in September of this year.