Alice Roberts (Harpist)

Alice is an award-winning Mancunian harpist with a deep enthusiasm for music, available for weddings, corporate events, orchestral work and solo performances. She completed her undergraduate degree on the highly competitive and prestigious Manchester ‘Joint Course’, which involves studying for a Bachelor of Music degree at the University of Manchester and a graduateship at the Royal Northern College of Music simultaneously. In 2018 she graduated with first class honours in music from the University of Manchester and the following year she was awarded an Upper classification as a Graduate of the RNCM (GRNCM). During her time as a student at Manchester University, Alice was awarded the Procter-Gregg both in 2016 and 2018, an award offered annually to the student with the highest mark for performance. In correspondence, at the RNCM she won the Graucob award for further study during her time at the junior department, and in 2020 became the first harpist to win the RNCM Gold Medal competition - the highest prize offered for performance at the conservatoire. Alice remains deeply passionate about exploring alternative styles on the harp, and in 2018 she travelled to Switzerland to study under widely acclaimed jazz harpist Park Stickney. Since then, she has collaborated with a large range of musicians including the folk duo ‘Good Habits’, celebrated genre-bending vocalist and violinist Alice Zawadski, and the highly talented jazz-saxophonist Jasmine Myra, for whom she remains a fixture of the band. With Jasmine, she has gone on through various tours to play at many prestigious venues and festivals, including We Out Here festival, Love Supreme festival and multiple performances at Hamburg’s iconic Elbphilharmonie concert hall. In 2021, she joined the band of the leading spiritual jazz artist and producer Matthew Halsall, with whom she records and performs regularly across the UK and internationally. In 2023, she played with Matthew as part of his anticipated album launch tour ‘An Ever Changing View’, which afforded her the opportunity to play at some of the most famous venues in Europe, including Manchester’s New Century Hall, Zurich’s Moods jazz club, Studio 4 inside Brussels’ Flagey building, and London’s Barbican Hall as well as its historic Royal Albert Hall. An experienced freelance harpist, Alice performs as a soloist across the North West, and also regularly appears with many orchestras. She regularly entertains at both corporate and occasion events and her wide interest in different genres of music means her performances consist of tailor-made music appropriate to any occasion. Skilled in arranging for the harp, Alice is also willing to allow for a particular song request from you.