Winner of the 1998 Pierre Fournier Award
Alice Neary was winner of the 1998 Pierre Fournier Award, and was awarded major prizes in the 2001 Leonard Rose International Cello Competition, USA and the 1997 Adam International Cello Competition in New Zealand. She won the String Section of the 1996 Royal Overseas League Competition and Silver Medal in the 1994 Shell/LSO Competition resulting in a performance of the Haydn C major Concerto with the London Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican.
Recent concerto appearances include performances with the English Chamber Orchestra, City of London Sinfonia, the Israel Symphony Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony, Orchestra of St Johns, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, European Union Chamber Orchestra and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. She frequently broadcasts on BBC Radio 3 and has given recitals at the Bridgewater Hall, Wigmore Hall, Purcell Room and at the Manchester International Cello Festival.
Alice has an extremely wide repertoire including music by many contemporary composers. In 1995 she was the soloist in a Sony Classical’s recording of Innocence by Sir John Tavener, and appeared in The South Bank Show’s Tavener documentary. She has been Artist-in-Residence several times at the Presteigne Festival, performing works by Michael Berkeley, Robin Holloway and John McCabe. In January 2005, Alice participated in the BBC’s MacMillan Weekend at the Barbican with the Gould Trio with whom she has been cellist since 2002, broadcast live on Radio 3, and gave a live broadcast on Radio 3 as part of the station’s Beethoven Weekend in June 2005. The Trio has toured the USA and New Zealand, as well as giving many recitals in Europe. She is a founder member of the Ovid Ensemble taking part in the prestigious Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival in New Mexico.
AliceAlice plays a Gagliano cello of 1720.