Alex MacDonald

Over a decade ago I was enchanted away from engineering and science by my composerly friends writing music for me. Now as an alumna of ANAM and graduate of the University of Auckland, I am a freelance musician and barista. I have a long record of engaging with emerging composers, through several solo viola commissions and new music events in New Zealand, Australia, and Switzerland. In 2013 I founded the Rothko Quartet and won the ROSL/Pettman scholarship which saw us tour Europe. Later I founded the Villani Piano Quartet and left to study in Melbourne. I have performed with orchestras across New Zealand and Melbourne, toured with live live cinema around the world, appeared as several characters in the revolutionary group Blackbird Ensemble, and performed for the Composers’ Association of