Alexandra Mison (she/her) is a composer and pianist based in Meanjin/Brisbane, Australia. Her compositional style is driven by emotive, lyrical melodies and she often finds herself drawing inspiration from nature and little moments in everyday life. She has composed works for a range of ensembles and instrumentations, including solo piano, chamber ensemble, symphony orchestra, wind symphony and SATB choir. In 2022/23, she was a composer fellow for the Vox Camerata Choral Collective Residency Programme, through which her piece Nostalgia (for SATB) was premiered in March 2023.

Alexandra has also recently composed three new works for Queensland Youth Orchestras, as one of their 2023 composers-in-residence: One Hundred Billion Stars, Reflections and Home Time. Her works have been premiered and performed by Vox Llinette, Queensland Youth Orchestra 3, QYO Wind Symphony, Pulse Chamber Orchestra and Sketch Ensemble, both in Australia and internationally. In 2021, her piece A Little Bit of Fun, composed for level 3-4 wind band, received a Special Mention in the Australian Women’s Wind Band Composition Award.

Alexandra has also composed the original scores for two short films, Game Over (2020) and Flying Solo (2021). As a member of Sketch Ensemble since 2021, she has been involved in numerous projects and performances, including the development of a new score for two silent films, The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (1920) and Nosferatu (1922). In 2023, Alexandra will graduate with a Bachelor of Music (Honours)/Science from the University of Queensland, where she studies composition and physics. Her Honours thesis, completed in 2022, investigated the ways in which specific compositional techniques can be used to evoke a particular emotional response in the listener. In 2019, she was also awarded her Associate of Music, Australia (AMusA) in piano.