Alison Melville

Biography

Alison Melville’s career as a performer on historical flutes and recorders has taken her across Canada and the USA and to Iceland, Japan, New Zealand and Europe. Her extraordinary breadth of experience comprises solo and chamber music recitals; music for dance, theatre, film and television; orchestral work with modern and period instrument orchestras; concerts in venues more varied than you can imagine, from Boston’s Jordan Hall orTokyo’s Bunkamura Theatre to inner-city schools, ferry boats and prisons; musical repertoire from the 12th to 21st centuries, composed, arranged and improvised; and music from Celtic and Scandinavian traditions. Trained in Toronto, London (UK), and Basel as the winner of numerous awards from the Canada Council, Alison is a member of the Toronto Consort and Ensemble Polaris, and directs the multi-arts ensemble The Bird Project. She appears regularly with the Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra and has played for Soundstreams, Toronto Symphony, New Music Concerts, Festival Vancouver and many others. Her playing can be heard on over sixty CDs including five critically acclaimed solo recordings, on radio networks across North America, Britain, Norway, Australia, New Zealand,Iceland, etc., and on the soundtracks of The Tudors, The Borgias, and films by Atom Egoyan and Ang Lee. She taught atthe Oberlin College Conservatory of Music (Ohio) from 1999 to 2010.