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Alice Giles
Australia
Alice Giles has been celebrated as one of the world’s leading harp soloists. The Australian-born musician first attracted international notice when she won First Prize in the 8th Israel International Harp Contest at the age of 21. Since then she has performed extensively both in recital and with orchestras in Europe, America, Australia, and Israel. She presented her first solo recital at the age of 13 at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, was awarded the coveted Churchill International Fellowship and an Australia Council Grant to study in the USA and made her New York debut recital at Merkin Hall in 1983. Her teachers include June Loney, Alice Chalifoux and Judith Liber.
She was regarded by Luciano Berio as the foremost interpreter of his Sequenza II, and she has taken part in tributes to Berio at the Queen Elizabeth Hall London, Salzburg Mozarteum, and at the 92nd Street Y in New York to honour his 70th birthday. She has given many premiere performances for her instrument and has recently commissioned a complete program of new works for the electro-acoustic harp.
She has been a guest artist at numerous festivals, including the Bath Mozartfest, Scotia Festival, Adelaide and Sydney Festivals, Schleswig-Holstein and Insel Hombroich Festivals in Germany, Australian Festival of Chamber Music, Barossa Festival, Huntington Festival, the Salzedo Centennial in Austin, Texas, World Harp Congress in Copenhagen, World Harp Festival in Cardiff, the Edinburgh Harp Festival and was invited by Rudolf Serkin to participate for three summers in the Marlboro Music Festival in Vermont, USA. Concert highlights include solo recitals in London’s Wigmore Hall, New York’s 92nd Street Y, Frankfurt Alte Oper, Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Washington DC and Toronto, and concertos with Collegium Musicum Zürich, Badische Staatskapelle Karlsruhe, the English Symphony Orchestra, Danish Radio Concert Orchestra, and Hamburg Mozart Orchestra. She has worked with conductors David Porcelijn, Muhai Tang, Michael Christie, Marcus Stenz, Mark Elder, Jahja Ling, Tuomas Ollila, Sebastian Lang-Lessing, Ola Rudner, Roderick Brydon, Günter Neuhold, Hiroyuki Iwaki, Henry Krips, Ronald Zollman, Werner Andreas Albert among others. Alice Giles performs regularly with all the major Australian Symphony and Chamber orchestras. Chamber music ensemble partners include the Duo Corda with her husband Arnan Wiesel on piano, the Australia Ensemble, the Melos Quartet, Thomas Zehetmair, Jenny Abel, Andrea Lieberknecht, Geoffrey Collins and many others. She is director of the Seven Harp Ensemble.
Alice Giles has an international reputation as a teacher, having given master classes in the Salzburg Mozarteum, the Conservatorium in The Hague, Royal Academy London, Cleveland Institute, the Juilliard School, Curtis Institute, Conservatorio G. Verdi Milano, Parma Conservatorio, Detmold Hochschule and at the International Youth Festival in Bayreuth. From 1990 to 1998 she taught at the Hochschüle für Musik in Frankfurt, and has recently been appointed to the School of Music, ANU in Australia. She was on the jury for the 1998 International Harp Contest in Israel, the 2004 USA International Harp Competition and the IX Concourso Nationale d’Arpa ‘Victor Salvi’.
Her discography includes three solo harp discs, a concerto disc with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, conductor David Porcelijn, and many chamber music discs - among others as Duo Corda, with the Budapest Brass Quintet, with flutist Geoffrey Collins, the Marlboro Recording Society, and the Kunstpfeifer Martin Werner - for the KOCH, Musikado, ABC Classics, Tall Poppies, ArtWorks, CDI (Israel) and TMK labels.
Alice is Senior Lecturer at the ANU School of Music, Canberra.
She was regarded by Luciano Berio as the foremost interpreter of his Sequenza II, and she has taken part in tributes to Berio at the Queen Elizabeth Hall London, Salzburg Mozarteum, and at the 92nd Street Y in New York to honour his 70th birthday. She has given many premiere performances for her instrument and has recently commissioned a complete program of new works for the electro-acoustic harp.
She has been a guest artist at numerous festivals, including the Bath Mozartfest, Scotia Festival, Adelaide and Sydney Festivals, Schleswig-Holstein and Insel Hombroich Festivals in Germany, Australian Festival of Chamber Music, Barossa Festival, Huntington Festival, the Salzedo Centennial in Austin, Texas, World Harp Congress in Copenhagen, World Harp Festival in Cardiff, the Edinburgh Harp Festival and was invited by Rudolf Serkin to participate for three summers in the Marlboro Music Festival in Vermont, USA. Concert highlights include solo recitals in London’s Wigmore Hall, New York’s 92nd Street Y, Frankfurt Alte Oper, Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Washington DC and Toronto, and concertos with Collegium Musicum Zürich, Badische Staatskapelle Karlsruhe, the English Symphony Orchestra, Danish Radio Concert Orchestra, and Hamburg Mozart Orchestra. She has worked with conductors David Porcelijn, Muhai Tang, Michael Christie, Marcus Stenz, Mark Elder, Jahja Ling, Tuomas Ollila, Sebastian Lang-Lessing, Ola Rudner, Roderick Brydon, Günter Neuhold, Hiroyuki Iwaki, Henry Krips, Ronald Zollman, Werner Andreas Albert among others. Alice Giles performs regularly with all the major Australian Symphony and Chamber orchestras. Chamber music ensemble partners include the Duo Corda with her husband Arnan Wiesel on piano, the Australia Ensemble, the Melos Quartet, Thomas Zehetmair, Jenny Abel, Andrea Lieberknecht, Geoffrey Collins and many others. She is director of the Seven Harp Ensemble.
Alice Giles has an international reputation as a teacher, having given master classes in the Salzburg Mozarteum, the Conservatorium in The Hague, Royal Academy London, Cleveland Institute, the Juilliard School, Curtis Institute, Conservatorio G. Verdi Milano, Parma Conservatorio, Detmold Hochschule and at the International Youth Festival in Bayreuth. From 1990 to 1998 she taught at the Hochschüle für Musik in Frankfurt, and has recently been appointed to the School of Music, ANU in Australia. She was on the jury for the 1998 International Harp Contest in Israel, the 2004 USA International Harp Competition and the IX Concourso Nationale d’Arpa ‘Victor Salvi’.
Her discography includes three solo harp discs, a concerto disc with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, conductor David Porcelijn, and many chamber music discs - among others as Duo Corda, with the Budapest Brass Quintet, with flutist Geoffrey Collins, the Marlboro Recording Society, and the Kunstpfeifer Martin Werner - for the KOCH, Musikado, ABC Classics, Tall Poppies, ArtWorks, CDI (Israel) and TMK labels.
Alice is Senior Lecturer at the ANU School of Music, Canberra.