Alice Beckwith (b.1989) is a British composer of orchestral, chamber, and vocal music. Much sought after, she has recently been commissioned by the St Endellion Easter Festival and &Piano Music Festival, in addition to collaborating with The Choir of Trinity College Cambridge and The Carice Singers on new works.

A versatile composer of concert music, Alice's sound is lyrical and contemporary - her melodic sound firmly rooted in the British Isles - with an emphasis above all upon story-telling.

Alice has been commissioned by the St Endellion Easter Festival, where her new setting of Paul Fiddes’ The Phoenix - for tenor and harp - was first performed by Mark Padmore and Alis Huws in 2024. A new song-cycle Five Armitage Songs commissioned by the AndPiano Music Festival in Huddersfield marked a welcome return to West Yorkshire - setting texts by Poet Laureate Simon Armitage.

Recent projects include her setting of Victor Hugo’s text Tomorrow, at dawn - commissioned for Choir&Organ’s New Music Series 2025; and settings of Heinrich Brockes’ poetry, Nightingale and Reflections - commissioned by Endelienta Baroque - which toured the UK as part of their 2023/24 Autumn EarthSong project. 

Alice’s contemporary cantata The Golden Thread (2022) - commissioned by the Green Man Gallery, Buxton, for mezzo and mixed ensemble themed around the Green Man and the Erlking - received a first London performance at the 2023 Tête-à-Tête Opera Festival. 

Rapidly emerging as a contemporary composer, Alice was announced as one of 6 composers to participate in the 2023 Cheltenham Music Festival Composers’ Academy, for which she created Three Songs with The Carice Singers. Between 2020-22 she was Composer-in-Residence with Lodge Moor Children’s Choir. 

Alice has been mentored by Cheryl Frances-Hoad, and is a composer on Music Patron - a digital platform founded by Anthony Bolton, connecting composers with music lovers through the traditional concept of patronage on a subscription basis. 

From Halifax, West Yorkshire, Alice studied at the Junior RNCM before reading Music at Lincoln College, Oxford University; subsequently pursuing further postgraduate studies in Composition.