Alison Wells

Alison Wells (mezzo-soprano) originally trained as a pianist. She has sung with the London Sinfonietta, Matrix, Lontano, Music Projects/London, Composers’ Ensemble, Kokoro, Psappha, Gemini, Ensemble Corrente, Apartment House, the French ensemble 2e2m, the Schoenberg Ensemble and ASKO in Amsterdam, and Champ d’Action in Antwerp.

Recordings include a DVD of Maxwell Davies’s Miss Donnithorne’s Maggot, reviewed enthusiastically on Radio 3 and in Opera magazine, music by Philip Grange with Gemini, Saariaho’s Grammaire des Rèves with Champ d’Action, Stravinsky’s Les Noces with Robert Craft, Colin Riley’s A Stranger Called this Morning with Kokoro, Pierrot Lunaire with Firebird Ensemble, Silvina Milstein’s Fire Dressed in Black with Lontano, and a disc of voice and clarinet music with Ian Mitchell.

Alison is a professor at the Royal College of Music and Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance.