Alice Trueman

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Alice's music aired on Radio 3!
Rave Reviews for Solaris!

Alice's second score for the BBC was broadcast on Radio 3 on 24th February 2008. She composed the original music for 'Girlfriend In A Coma', a modern classic by Douglas Coupland, author of Generation X and Microserfs. The play was adapted for radio by Sony-nominated Dan Rebellato and play is produced and directed by Polly Thomas with whom Alice collaborated on Solaris.

In other news, the CD audiobook of Solaris, originally broadcast on Radio 4, is now available:
Solaris at Amazon.co.uk
Solaris at Play.com

Alice has received rave reviews for her score for Solaris in The Sunday Times, "The hypnotic, meditative music, composed by Alice Trueman, is outstanding", and The Stage which described her score as "superb". You can read the reviews in full below:
The Sunday Times
The Stage
DenOfGeek.com



"Her music exceeds your expectations, then keeps on going. With the sounds of Alice, you truly are in Wonderland!"
Matthew Cooke and Vincent Lund, Rapid Pictures

Alice Trueman is a music graduate who writes soundtracks for film, TV, animation and video games. She writes in a wide variety of styles including orchestral scores, folk, jazz, pop, electronic music and experimental soundscapes.

In 2006, Alice was chosen from over 1500 entrants as one of the 12 finalists in BBC New Talent's current national competition to find new TV Composers. She was also one of the winners of Channel 4's Ideasfactory Soundtrack Talent Search 2004 and in May 2005 she was short-listed as one of the "hottest young creatives" in the Midlands in Channel 4's Creative Class Competition.

Alice has scored for eleven short films, including documentaries, comedies and dramas. In September she recorded a ska song 'Zebadee' with a live band, Skadigan, for a 'First Light' documentary about the 2-Tone scene in Coventry. She also scored for two Digital Shorts earlier this year, 'Phizog', a quirky and sinister animation by Neil Webber, and 'Room 45', a comedy thriller directed by Matt Cooke and Vince Lund.

One of the highlights of 2005 was composing the music for a 20 minute documentary about the Coventry Blitz funded by the Royal Mail, for screening in primary schools nationwide. She has also scored for three Brummiewood films over the last two years, working with directors such as Justin Edgar and Paul Hardy. She has composed music for promotional videos for the Light House Media Centre, and an orchestral score for a chariot-racing video game.

Alice has several projects in the pipeline, including Iain Smith's animated Digital Short, working title 'Modern Paranoias', so watch this space!

Listen to MP3 excerpts of some of Alice's soundtracks on the Downloads Page.

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