Newcastle Festival of Jazz and Improvised Music 2026 | Alison Gill performs George Crumb’s Makrokosmos Book 1

Alison Gill is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Music, specialising as an accompanist and répétiteur. Now based in North Yorkshire, Alison is highly sought after as an accompanist across the region, collaborating regularly with the Chorus of the Royal Northern Sinfonia, the Jervaulx Singers and as an accompanist for Leeds Conservatoire, Durham University, the Berkshire Choral International and for the BBC Proms held at the Glasshouse International Centre for Music. As a soloist and accompanist Alison has also performed at venues from the Wigmore Hall to the Palau de La Musica in Barcelona and Vienna’s Musikverein.

A legendary work of prepared piano and alternative notation George Crumb’s Makrokosmos pieces for amplified piano were created during an especially fertile period of his compositional career. Crumb had received the 1968 Pulitzer Prize for Music (before turning 40), and he produced Volume I of Makrokosmos in 1972 and Volume II in 1973. Makrokosmos remain the most comprehensive and influential exploration of the new technical resources of the piano from the latter twentieth century.

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