Ali Fyffe was born in Melbourne, Australia and completed her undergraduate studies in notated music at the Victorian College of the Arts. She has since pursued studies at the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional de Boulogne-Billancourt in France and RMIT University in Australia.
 
As a keen collaborator and traveller, Ali has worked in numerous ensembles and with a range of artists in many countries. As a member of the KHASM Saxophone Quartet, she has toured Australia and performed with saxophonists in five states, as well as in the UK. In the Quanta Quartet, she has toured France and Australia and also performed in Italy and Malaysia. Both quartets received prizes and places in competitions in Australia and overseas. As a member of halfsound, Ali and co-artistic director Matt Hinchliffe have toured South-East Asia extensively supported by Creative Victoria, and have also performed in Australia, Taiwan and India.
 
Ali has always been an active performer and concert organiser. She has arranged several national and international tours and countless independent concerts and successful fundraisers in Australia. She is committed to the promotion of new works, particularly those for chamber music by young and Australian composers. Her commitment to new music has seen her participate in world and regional premieres of pieces by Thierry Alla, Pedro Garcia Velasquez, Takuma Itoh and Steve Reich, among others. Ali has brought compositions by a dozen young Australian composers to Asia and Europe in her travels which have sparked further commissions and collaborations.
 
Ali has been living nomadically in Asia for some years exploring her own voice as an experimental improviser and collaborating extensively with local artists. Highlights include a residency with thanks to Green Papaya Arts Projects and Asialink Arts, and participation in the WSK Festival of the Recently Possible in the Philippines. Described as “Unpopular Music”, “like a film score” and “weird”, Ali’s free improvisations explore unconventional use of the saxophone to create surreal acoustic soundscapes.
 
Ali has now settled in Melbourne but frequently returns to South-East Asia. She continues to collaborate, explore, shore, and foster links between artists. 

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