Alice Beckwith (b.1989) is a British composer of orchestral, chamber, and vocal music. Much sought after, she was awarded First Prize at the 2025 Charles Wood Festival Composers’ Competition and has 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 setting of Paul Fiddes’ poem The Phoenix - for tenor and harp - was first performed by Mark Padmore and Alis Huws at St Endellion 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.