Folk Bands and Artists
Alice Robinson
http://www.alicerobinson.co.uk
Alice Robinson comes from Northumberland, and has played the Northumbrian Smallpipes for 20 years. She attended music school in Scotland for eight years and, during this time, she was a part of Kathryn Tickell’s youth group ‘Folkestra’ and was taught pipes by Dr. Anthony Robb. In 2009, she was a finalist in BBC Radio2’s Young Folk Musician of the Year. Since then, she has been broadcast on radio, including live on BBC Radio3, and has performed as a soloist with the Royal Northern Sinfonia Quartet and the Scottish Youth Orchestra. She has recorded a few albums with the Windy Gyle Band, with whom she has enjoyed playing at folk festivals (she particularly loved being at the 2014 Strakonice Bagpipe Festival in the Czech Republic). Alice is passionate about musical academia too; she has a 1st class degree from York University and a Masters from Durham University, where she has just completed her PhD in British music. In the last year, Alice has played with the St-Martin-in-the-Fields choir, recorded two tracks on Jack Rutter’s critically acclaimed new album, and performed in a composition by René Aubry for BBC One. Her set of pipes were made by David Burleigh and she often plays a chanter which was made by Colin Ross
